Included as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the information blocking rule entered the first compliance phase in April 2021. Under this rule, post-acute long-term care (PALTC) facilities must not engage in any activity that interferes with accessing, using, or exchanging electronic health information. I...
Last week, the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS) announced increased transparency of additional nursing home ownership data, including names of affiliated owners for the first time on Nursing Home Care Compare
Self-perceived balance confidence (BC) and gait speed influence falls. Whether they modulate each other in fall prediction stays uncertain. This study examined whether and how BC modulated the association between gait speed and falls.
When AMDA launched the Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) – Optimizing Medication Use in PALTC initiative two years ago, they hoped it would make a difference. But members of the D2D workgroup—Arif Nazir, MD, CMD; Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD; Michael Cinque, RPharmD; and Jennifer Pruskowski, PharmD, ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the morbidity and mortality of residents in long-term care (LTC) homes. However, not much is known about its impact on staff's perception of their capacity to provide palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care for LTC residents over the course of the pandemic. We ...
To evaluate associations of Life's Essential 8 (LE8) score, the recently updated metric for promoting cardiovascular health (CVH), with the risk of incident dementia and its subtypes, cognition, and neuroimaging outcomes and to determine whether these associations differ among apolipoprotein E (APOE)-...