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JAMDA
February 7, 2014
The Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) Quality Improvement Program: An Overview for Medical Directors and Primary Care Clinicians in Long Term Care
Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) is a publicly available quality improvement program that focuses on improving the identification, evaluation, and management of acute changes in condition of nursing home residents. Effective implementation has been associated with substantial reducti...
JAMDA
October 1, 2018
Rehabilitation Therapy for Nursing Home Residents at the End-of-Life
Ultrahigh therapy use has increased in SNFs without concomitant increases in residents' characteristics. It has been suggested that this trend may also have influenced the provision of high-intensity rehabilitation therapies to residents who are at the end of life (EOL). Motivated by lack of evidence,...
JAMDA
October 3, 2019
Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD) in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes
The Ethics Subcommittee of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (“The Society”) presents arguments for and against Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD). SED by AD is a type of advance directive in which a proxy is instructed to stop offering food and fluids ...
JAMDA
August 12, 2016
Mini-Nutritional Assessment, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, and Nutrition Risk Screening Tool for the Nutritional Evaluation of Older Nursing Home Residents
Malnutrition plays a major role in clinical and functional impairment in older adults. The use of validated, user-friendly and rapid screening tools for malnutrition in the elderly may improve the diagnosis and, possibly, the prognosis. The aim of this study was to assess the agreement between Mini-Nutriti...
JAMDA
October 17, 2025
Turnover in Nursing Homes That Serve Residents With Serious Mental Illness
To examine whether nursing facility proportion of residents with serious mental illness (SMI) is associated with nursing staff turnover.
JAMDA
June 9, 2023
The Burden and Treatment of Chronic Constipation Among US Nursing Home Residents
To evaluate the burden of chronic constipation (CC) and the use of drugs to treat constipation (DTC) in 2 complementary data sources.
JAMDA
November 21, 2021
Rushing Care by Care Aides Associated With Experiences of Responsive Behaviors From Residents in Nursing Homes
Residents with cognitive impairment favor “slow care,” so rushed care may cause additional responsive behaviors (eg, verbal threats, hitting) among residents. We assessed the association of rushed care (physical and social) by care aides with their experiences of responsive behaviors from residents. ...
JAMDA
November 19, 2021
A Robotic Device to Enhance Nursing Home Provider Telepresence During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges to face-to-face communication with people residing in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings. Telemedicine is an alternative, but facility staff may be overburdened with the management of the equipment. Here we introduce the use of a mobile HIP...
JAMDA
June 13, 2021
Effects of Staff Training on Nursing Home Residents’ End-Of-Life Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial
This trial examines the effects of end-of-life training on long-term care facility (LTCF) residents' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and use and costs of hospital services.
