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JAMDA

January 19, 2024

Exploring Staffing Levels in Adult Day Services: Does Profit Status Matter?

For more than 4 decades, adult day service centers (ADSCs) have provided long-term care services and socialization to hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. An important part of the long-term care continuum, ADSCs serve older adults and adults with disabilities, many of whom have low incomes...
Spotlight

August 23, 2024

New D2D Course Takes Practitioners Further Down the Deprescribing Highway

The concept of deprescribing has gained traction in recent years, and the Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) program takes the wheel with a new course, Design Your Deprescribing Intervention, which launched earlier this month. “Our audience was craving more documents, materials, and information to bring back to th...
PALTmed In The News

June 13, 2024

Value-based care could boost SNF reimbursement rates: Viewpoint

Many nursing homes are closing due to financial strain, but changing service models from fee-for-service to value-based care could help improve their finances, Rajeev Kumar, MD, president of AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, told Becker's in a recent interview
JAMDA

November 28, 2024

Effects of Virtual Reality–Based Activities of Daily Living Rehabilitation Training in Older Adults With Cognitive Frailty and Activities of Daily Living Impairments: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Cognitive frailty, which is notably prevalent in nursing homes, correlates with a range of adverse health outcomes; however, interventions targeting this population are scarce, particularly those addressing activities of daily living (ADLs). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of virtua...
PALTmed In The News

June 17, 2025

SNF medical directors cautiously optimistic about fed plans to examine their work

The Office of Inspector General has announced it will take a magnifying glass to how nursing homes employ and pay medical directors, as well as keep track of the work performed. The added scrutiny — and attempts to ensure greater transparency  — is something post-acute care physicians say they welcome, as ...