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December 9, 2016
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November 4, 2022
Neither Race nor Ethnicity Impact the Mortality of Residents of Veterans Affairs Community Living Center With COVID-19
COVID-19 disproportionately affected nursing home residents and people from racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Nursing homes in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system, termed Community Living Centers (CLCs), belong to a national managed care system. In the period prior to the availability of vacc...
JAMDA
December 31, 2021
The Imperative to Reimagine Assisted Living
Assisted living (AL) has existed in the United States for decades, evolving in response to older adults’ need for supportive care and distaste for nursing homes and older models of congregate care. AL is state-regulated, provides at least 2 meals a day, around-the-clock supervision, and help with personal ...
JAMDA
October 1, 2015
Sliding Scale Insulin vs Basal-Bolus Insulin Therapy in Long-Term Care: A 21-Day Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Efficacy, Safety and Feasibility
Sliding scale insulin (SSI) therapy remains a common means of insulin therapy in long-term care (LTC) for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus, despite current recommendations not supportive of the form of therapy today. Lack of randomized trial data on the efficacy and safety of basal-bolus insulin ...
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 29, 2025
Optimizing Long-Term Facility Staffing With Artificial Intelligence: Aligning Care With Needs and Resources
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a staffing regulation requiring Medicare- and Medicaid-certified long-term care facilities to provide a minimum of 3.48 nursing hours per resident day and ensure that a registered nurse is on-site at all times. Although intended to improve...
JAMDA
July 11, 2023
Lost in Transition: Missed Opportunities for the 4 Ms to Support Post-Acute Care Transitions
Thousands of health systems have adopted the 4 Ms framework, a set of evidence-based practices specific to older adults, as part of the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) initiative. However, implementation efforts have largely been setting-specific and approaches to achieve continuity of the 4 Ms during c...
JAMDA
August 3, 2023
The Macro Impact of Microtransitions in Post-acute and Long-Term Care
The care transitions concept emerged in medical literature more than 40 years ago, with an exponential rise in publications dedicated to its exploration since that time. It is generally accepted that older patients are particularly vulnerable during care transitions because of complex medical comorbidity, ...
JAMDA
June 17, 2024
The Prevalence and Benefits of Self-Compassion Among Professional Caregivers
Self-compassion is a healthy way of responding to challenges that may help long-term care professional caregivers (ie, nursing assistants and personal care aides) cope with stress, but its use may vary in important ways. This study explored the relationships between self-compassion and caregiver demographi...
JAMDA
September 8, 2020