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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
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...
Caring for the Ages
September 8, 2026
Let’s Support High-Quality Research in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
The Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is thrilled to announce two research awards thus far in 2026! Troy Alexander, a Schreyer Honors Scholar at Penn State University, in collaboration with Liza Behrens, PhD, RN, a health services researcher in the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing...
JAMDA
August 18, 2015
Geriatric Rehabilitation and Discharge Location After Hip Fracture in Relation to the Risks of Death and Readmission
To investigate the effects of geriatric rehabilitation on short-term risk of death and readmission after a hip fracture were investigated in a nationwide cohort. In addition, the association of discharge location (nursing home or patient's home) with the short-term risk of death was assessed.
JAMDA
January 14, 2021
Machine-Learning Modeling to Predict Hospital Readmission Following Discharge to Post-Acute Care
Primary purpose was to generate a model to identify key factors relevant to acute care hospital readmission within 90 days from 3 types of post-acute care (PAC) sites: home with home care services (HC), skilled nursing facility (SNF), and inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF). Specific aims were to (1) e...
JAMDA
December 29, 2021
Generalist-Specialist Collaboration in Primary Care for Frail Older Persons: A Promising Model for the Future
The complex care needs of frail older persons living at home is a major challenge for health care systems worldwide. One possible solution is to employ a primary care physician (PCP) with additional geriatric expertise. In the Netherlands, elderly care physicians (ECPs), who traditionally work in nursing h...
JAMDA
June 22, 2020
Do Patients Retain their Family Physicians after Long-Term Care Entry? A Retrospective Cohort Study
Older adults value and benefit from the long-standing relationship they have with their family physicians. This dynamic has not been researched in a long-term care (LTC, ie, nursing home) setting. We sought to determine the proportion of LTC residents who retain their community family physician within the ...
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...
JAMDA
February 18, 2026
Factors Associated With Initial Type of Long-Term Services and Supports Among Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries
To examine the association between individual characteristics and type of initial long-term services and supports (LTSS) among older adults receiving Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) or nursing home (NH) care.
