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JAMDA
March 1, 2024
Changes in End-of-Life Symptom Management Prescribing among Long-Term Care Residents during COVID-19
To examine changes in the prescribing of end-of-life symptom management medications in long-term care (LTC) homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
JAMDA
August 24, 2023
Prevalence, Severity and Impact of Visuospatial Neglect in Geriatric Stroke Rehabilitation, a Cross-Sectional Study
Visuospatial neglect (VSN) is a common cognitive deficit of lateralized attention after stroke and can have a negative influence on patients’ daily activities, community participation, and caregiver burden. VSN prevalence has been investigated in several mixed-age populations, but rarely in only an older p...
Spotlight
March 22, 2024
The Changing Face of AL
The face of assisted living (AL) has changed significantly over the years. It has gone from being strictly a hospitality model to a hybrid of hospitality and medical care. Increasingly, AL is home to residents with a variety of clinical issues and chronic conditions, as well as mental, cognitive, and physi...
JAMDA
January 13, 2021
Hospital Deaths Increased After Reforms Regardless of Dementia Status: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis
Dying in a hospital is highly stressful for older adults and families. Persons with dementia who are hospitalized are particularly vulnerable to negative outcomes. The objective of this study is to fill an evidence gap on whether the 2015 Dutch long-term care reforms were effective in increasing deaths at ...
Spotlight
December 11, 2024
Emergency and Disaster Preparedness: An Ongoing Challenge
Living in Florida, PALTtalk podcast host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, thinks about disaster and emergency preparedness pretty much “all the time.” In a world in which hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other weather-related disasters, not to mention workplace violence and armed intruders, are more com...
JAMDA
December 27, 2024
Nurse Practitioner and Physician Collaboration in the Long-Term Care Setting: Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review
Over the past decade, the role of nurse practitioners (NPs) in long-term care home (LTCH) settings has significantly expanded. Despite this trend, gaps have been identified in the description of collaborative practices between NPs and physicians in the LTCH sector. This study aimed to characterize the elem...
Policy Snapshot
April 4, 2025
LCAO Urges Protection of Services for Older Adults Amid HHS Restructurings
The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO), representing 68 nonprofit groups, including PALTmed, has raised concerns about potential impacts on services for older adults as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) restructures. In a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the LCAO...
JAMDA
March 13, 2025