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JAMDA

December 23, 2021

High-Quality Nursing Home and Palliative Care—One and the Same

Many individuals receiving post-acute and long-term care services in nursing homes have unmet palliative and end-of-life care needs. Hospice has been the predominant approach to meeting these needs, although hospice services generally are available only to long-term care residents with a limited prognosis ...
JAMDA

December 22, 2021

Advancing Clinical Trials in Nursing Homes: A Proposed Roadmap to Success

An effective clinical research effort in nursing homes to address prevention and treatment of COVID-19 faced overwhelming challenges. Under the Health Care Systems Research Network-Older Americans Independence Centers AGING Initiative, a multidisciplinary Stakeholder Advisory Panel was convened to develop ...
JAMDA

December 21, 2021

Reimagining Postdiagnostic Care and Support in Young-Onset Dementia

Although dementia has a profound impact in general, young-onset dementia causes additional problems and challenges as people are affected in their prime years. Awareness has increased that people with young-onset dementia and their families have specific care needs and dedicated services are necessary to a...
JAMDA

December 20, 2021

Reimagining Financing and Payment of Long-Term Care

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed fundamental problems with the structure of long-term care financing and payment in the United States. The piecemeal system that exists suffers from several key problems, including underfunding, fragmentation across types and sites of care, and substantial variation in payment...