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Spotlight
June 6, 2024
Barbara Zarowitz, PharmD, MSW, BCPS, CGP, was surprised to receive the 2024 John Gladstone Award for Media Excellence. The award, named for AMDA’s long-time website administrator who passed away in 2022, is designed to honor and recognize contributions to the PALTC clinical community through a media projec...
Spotlight
July 24, 2024
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
May 20, 2024
Psychological resilience is a crucial component of mental health and well-being for health care workers. It is positively linked to compassion satisfaction and inversely associated with burnout. The current literature on health care worker resilience has mainly focused on primary care and tertiary hospital...
JAMDA
May 22, 2024
Dementia is a clinical diagnosis without curative treatment. It is uncertain whether ancillary testing is beneficial for patients. This study investigates the association between use of diagnostic tests and time to poor outcome and health care costs.
JAMDA
April 27, 2024
This study aimed to use the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to encapsulate the complex and multidimensional nature of social determinants and their influence on alcohol intake and mortality in middle-aged and older individuals.
JAMDA
September 1, 2025
This study aimed to examine the association between all-cause hearing disorder onset and dementia risk, owing to prior reports of inconsistencies and untested potential biases.
JAMDA
September 10, 2025
As an increasing number of hospitalized inpatients are older and frail, cognitive impairment is becoming more common. Cognitive impairment may increase susceptibility to adverse events (AEs). This study aimed to identify the prevalence of AEs, potentially preventable AEs, and deaths in patients with and wi...
PALTmed In The News
September 30, 2025
Long-term care leaders have become used to budget deals that go into overtime and risk government shutdowns. But they say current circumstances are unlike any other previously and threats to their livelihoods and patient care are more serious than ever before.
JAMDA
September 16, 2025
In 2017, the Chronic Condition Warehouse released a 30-condition Chronic Condition file (CC30), which fully replaced the prior 27-condition file (CC27) in 2022. CC30 shortened the look-back period for dementia identification from 3 to 2 years and raised the required outpatient/carrier claims from 1 to 2. T...
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
An ageing population is associated with increased health care utilization and higher likelihood of older adults becoming frequent users of emergency medical services (EMS). This study aims to explore a natural language processing (NLP) approach using textual notes from EMS to facilitate the identification ...