JAMDA
November 12, 2024
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Spotlight
November 1, 2024
5 Reasons to Make the PALTmed Community Yours
For Azlan Tariq, DO, vice chair of the Membership Committee, being an active PALTmed member is a no-brainer. “This is the only organization that focuses on the providers and patients in this challenging but very satisfying practice setting,” he said, adding that the association and his fellow PALTmed membe...
Spotlight
November 8, 2024
Leading the Way Through Respiratory Virus Season
It’s the time of year that facilities are seeing residents, staff, and others with respiratory viruses such as COVID-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). In a recent special PALTtalk podcast, host Ghinwa Dumyati, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Communicable Diseases Surveillance an...
Policy Snapshot
November 12, 2024
2024 and Beyond: What to Expect from the New 119th Congress for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Clinicians
With the 2024 election now behind us, PALTmed is poised to monitor several key issues in the coming months as the new Congress takes shape. The Senate has shifted to a Republican majority, currently standing at 53-47. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives remains undecided but likely to remain the same, ...
Policy Snapshot
December 2, 2024
2024 QPP Exception Applications are Available
The 2024 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Exception applications are available through December 31, 2024, at 8:00 PM ET. Two types of exception applications allow users to indicate the reason they’re unable to report data for one or more Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance categories. ...
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
August 11, 2021
Delayed Dysphagia May Be Sarcopenic Dysphagia in Patients After Stroke
In many cases, swallowing function is impaired after the onset of stroke and gradually improves. However, delayed dysphagia has been reported in some post-stroke patients. Recently, several studies have reported that low muscle strength and decreased muscle mass cause dysphagia. This study aimed to investi...
JAMDA
July 12, 2020
Healthcare Utilization After Stroke: A 1-Year Prospective Study
This study was undertaken to investigate the predictive value of disease-related factors, contextual factors, and functioning on the use of healthcare for 1 year after stroke.
JAMDA
August 6, 2020