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JAMDA

July 20, 2021

Medical Decision-Making Practices for Unrepresented Residents in Nursing Homes

Unrepresented adults are individuals who lack decision-making capacity and have neither an available surrogate decision maker nor an applicable advance directive. Currently, the prevalence of unrepresented nursing home (NH) residents and how medical decisions are made is unknown. We examined (1) the preval...
Spotlight

March 31, 2025

Medical Director of the Year: Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future

William Mercer, MD, CMD, the 2025 Medical Director of the Year, vividly remembers how he got involved with post-acute and long-term care and with PALTmed (then known as AMDA). The local hospital, which had a long-term care skilled unit, approached him and asked if he’d like to be the medical director. He w...