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JAMDA
June 4, 2025
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JAMDA
June 3, 2025
Long-Term Care Staffing: Associations with Facility Characteristics, Residents’ Experience, and Quality Measures
In October 2022, Australia introduced individual targets for total care and registered nurse (RN) minutes for long-term care facilities based on the assessed care needs of their residents. This study examined associations between facility characteristics and the extent to which care minute targets are met,...
JAMDA
June 3, 2025
CMS Quality Star Ratings for Nursing Homes Change Frequently: A Descriptive Analysis of Trends From 2009 to 2020
Nursing Home Compare star ratings are closely watched by hospital delivery systems, policymakers, and consumers as measures of care quality. However, very little is known about the degree to which nursing homes can or do move between star ratings, what we refer to as performance mobility. This study addres...
Podcast
June 2, 2025
PALTtalk with Caring | June/July 2025, with Special Guests Susan Mullaney, DNP, and Marianne Shaughnessy, PhD, on Advanced Practice Nursing Roles in Gerontology
JAMDA
May 30, 2025
Feasibility of Novel Opioid Assessment Tool for Rehabilitation Patients in a Skilled Nursing Facility
A uniform standardized assessment of opioid treatment does not exist to guide management decisions for patients in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The purpose of this study is to determine if (1) a novel opioid assessment tool can be feasibly used to support clinician decision-making in opioid managemen...
JAMDA
May 30, 2025
Physician Health Counseling for Older Adults with Obesity in the United States, 2015-2019: An Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data
Obesity affects one-third of American adults aged ≥65 years. Despite the increasing uptake of prescription weight loss medications, physician provision of diet and exercise weight loss counseling and referrals benefits patients and improves health outcomes. To increase awareness about possible underuse of ...
JAMDA
May 30, 2025
Screening/Diagnosing Sarcopenia with Machine Learning–Powered Risk Assessment: The SARCO X Study
Sarcopenia imposes significant morbidity and economic burden on health care systems, underscoring the critical need for early/effective screening and diagnosis. This study aimed to develop a machine learning (ML)-based algorithm to facilitate the screening/diagnosis of sarcopenia.
JAMDA
May 30, 2025
Which Enhanced Influenza Vaccine Has the Greatest Immunogenicity in Long-Term Care Residents: The Adjuvanted or the High-Dose Formulation?
This study compares enhanced influenza vaccines recommended for older adults, adjuvanted flu vaccine (aTIV, FLUAD) vs high-dose flu vaccine (HD-IIV3, FLUZONE HD) to determine if they met noninferiority standards for older long-term care facility (LTCF) residents.
Policy Snapshot
May 30, 2025
CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program Open for Applications
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now accepting applications for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Eligible organizations interested in joining the program must submit their applications through the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Management System.
Policy Snapshot
May 30, 2025