JAMDA
December 31, 2021
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JAMDA
August 23, 2018
Advancing Research on Care Needs and Supportive Approaches for Persons With Dementia: Recommendations and Rationale
The first National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers was held on October 16-17, 2017, at the National Institutes of Health. In this paper, participants from the Summit Session on Research on Care Needs and Supportive Approaches for Persons with D...
JAMDA
December 30, 2022
COVID-19 in Assisted Living: Protecting a Critical Long-Term Care Resource
The COVID-19 pandemic had a big impact on assisted living (AL), a vital setting in long-term care (LTC). Understanding the strengths and opportunities for improvement through practice, policy, and research are essential for AL to be prepared for the next pandemic and other challenges. AL communities experi...
JAMDA
December 20, 2018
The Underappreciated Role of Low Muscle Mass in the Management of Malnutrition
Preserving muscle is not only crucial for maintaining proper physical movement, but also for its many metabolic and homeostatic roles. Low muscle mass has been shown to adversely affect health outcomes in a variety of disease states (eg, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease...
Policy Snapshot
April 26, 2024
Observation Status Legislation Introduced in Congress
This week, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) announced bipartisan legislation to update a current loophole in Medicare policy to help protect seniors from high medical costs for the skilled nursing care they require after hospitalization. The Improving Access...
JAMDA
March 20, 2025
Identifying Patient, Care Partner, and Clinician Needs for Functional Recovery Following Hospitalization When Dementia is Present
Persons with dementia are frequently hospitalized, which threatens their ability to return to and live at home. Current post-acute paradigms tend to default to short-term rehabilitation in a nursing home. Still, alternative post-acute care models are crucial for veterans with dementia to recover at home. T...
JAMDA
October 22, 2016
Determining Nurse Aide Staffing Requirements to Provide Care Based on Resident Workload: A Discrete Event Simulation Model
Nursing aides provide most of the labor-intensive activities of daily living (ADL) care to nursing home (NH) residents. Currently, most NHs do not determine nurse aide staffing requirements based on the time to provide ADL care for their unique resident population. The lack of an objective method to determ...
JAMDA
June 10, 2024
Evolution of Telehealth Program to Meet Current Needs of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Communities
This article describes a telehealth program initially created to reduce transfers to acute care from the nursing home and its evolution into a robust program that includes Behavioral Health, a Medical Director program, and telenursing.
JAMDA
April 24, 2025
Solution to Improve State Health Outcomes and Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Full Practice of APRNs
To identify the influence of advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) restrictive practice laws on the number of APRNs providing services in various care settings, acute, primary, nursing home (long stay), and skilled nursing facility (short stay); understand the relationship between restrictive practice ...
Spotlight
February 1, 2024
National Dementia Workforce Study Needs Your Input
AMDA members are often on the frontlines of dementia care, so it’s only appropriate that they be involved in the National Dementia Workforce Study, which involves surveying those individuals who work in homes, hospitals, clinics, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes to gain data to improve care an...
