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July 24, 2024

An Exciting Time for Advocacy

Just because you’re a clinician doesn’t mean you can’t be a savvy advocate. In fact, the two roles often go hand in hand. On the most recent AMDA On-The-Hill podcast, Timothy Holahan, DO, CMD, chair of the Society’s Public Policy Steering Committee, talked about policy updates with host Alex Bardakh, MPP, ...

JAMDA

January 22, 2025

Quality and Safety Indicators for Care Transitions by Older Adults: A Scoping Review

To identify quality and safety indicators routinely used to monitor, evaluate, and improve care transitions for older adults globally.

JAMDA

February 1, 2025

Shared Decision-Making on Tobacco Smoking by Older Adults Living in Residential Care Facilities: Care Professionals’ Perspectives

Older adults with physical or cognitive disabilities may need to move to residential care facilities (RCFs). Some older adults smoke tobacco and become dependent on their care professionals to continue smoking. Care professionals need to balance an individual resident’s quality of life and well-being with ...

Policy Snapshot

March 24, 2025

2024 MIPS Data Submission Deadline Extended to April 14, 2025

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)-eligible clinicians and their representatives can submit and update their MIPS data until April 14, 2025, at 8:00 PM ET. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) encourages submission of data as early as possible in advance of this extended deadline...

JAMDA

June 13, 2024

Care Providers’ Perspectives on the Design of Assistive Persuasive Behaviors for Socially Assistive Robots

The main objectives of this research are (1) to uniquely design assistive behaviors for socially assistive robots using the principles of persuasion from behavioral psychology, and (2) to investigate caregivers’ perspectives and opinions on the use of these behaviors to engage and motivate older adults in ...

JAMDA

June 19, 2024

The Ability of Physical Performance Measures to Identify Fall Risk in Older Adults Living With Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

To determine whether physical performance measures commonly used in clinical settings can discriminate fallers from nonfallers and predict falls in older adults with dementia.

Policy Snapshot

January 27, 2025

CMS Delays Telehealth Guidance Amid Communication Freeze

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not yet released temporary guidance to private Medicare administrators (MACs) for updating payment codes to bill for telehealth services extended through March under the 2024 year-end package. This delay has caused confusion among stakeholders, who...

JAMDA

November 25, 2024

Clinical Predictors of Mortality in People with Severe Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

Dementia significantly impacts quality of life, health care costs, and caregiver burden, being a leading cause of death among older adults. We investigated predictors of mortality in people with severe behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).

JAMDA

December 12, 2024

Long-Term Care Needs Assessment: From Frameworks to Practice

Identify and describe instruments used by countries to perform functional ability assessment as eligibility for their long-term care systems and compare them to existing healthy aging frameworks proposed by the World Health Organization (intrinsic capacity and functionality).

JAMDA

October 16, 2024

Defining and Categorizing Nonpharmacologic Interventions in the Older Population: A Systematic Review

Nonpharmacologic interventions (NPIs) constitute an important part of treatment for older adults, cover a broad and diverse range of interventions, and have advantages over pharmacologic interventions (eg, limited adverse side effects). However, an unambiguous definition of NPIs is still lacking. Defining ...