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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...

Caring for the Ages

June 30, 2018

Medical Decisions: Who Should Get to Decide?

Caring for the Ages

March 29, 2016

Medical Director of the Year Loves the Art of Geriatrics

Caring for the Ages

February 27, 2019

Medical Director of the Year Nominees, 2019

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...

JAMDA

February 19, 2015

Medical Decision-Making Practices for Unrepresented Residents in Nursing Homes

Medical Decisions: Who Should Get to Decide?

Medical Director of the Year Loves the Art of Geriatrics

Medical Director of the Year Nominees, 2019

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

Medical Directors Role in Ebola Screening and Intervention

Medical Directors Should Help Improve Quality and Reduce Liability

Medical Directors, Surveys and the Law

Medical Directors: Why Do You Abdicate Your Advocacy With Nursing Homes?

Medical Education in the Long-Term Care Setting: Exploring Residents’ Experience of Learning in This Environment

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