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November 21, 2023
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JAMDA
August 10, 2015
Changing Patterns of Glucose-Lowering Medication Use in VA Nursing Home Residents With Diabetes, 2005 to 2011
Although nursing home (NH) residents make up a large and growing proportion of Americans with diabetes mellitus, little is known about how glucose-lowering medications are used in this population. We sought to examine glucose-lowering medication use in Veterans Affairs (VA) NH residents with diabetes betwe...
JAMDA
March 27, 2018
Who Is Responsible? A Man With Dementia Wanders From Home, Is Hit by a Train, and Dies
The impact of dementia and Alzheimer's disease extends far beyond the healthcare needs of the person with dementia. As the disease progresses, individuals with dementia often require ongoing formal or informal care for their basic daily routine because of behavior changes and continuing loss of cognit...
Resolutions
G95 - Physician Medical Directors
Policy Snapshot
May 31, 2024
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — Early Safety Findings Among Persons Aged 60 Years and Older Who Received a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine — United States, May 3, 2023–April 14, 2024
A new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) highlights safety findings for two respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 2023 for adults 60 years of age and older.
JAMDA
September 16, 2025
Changes in Medicare's Chronic Condition Files and Disparities in Dementia Identification
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...
Position Statements
Policy Statement on Influenza Vaccination of Health Care Personnel
Spotlight
December 11, 2024
Emergency and Disaster Preparedness: An Ongoing Challenge
Living in Florida, PALTtalk podcast host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, thinks about disaster and emergency preparedness pretty much “all the time.” In a world in which hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other weather-related disasters, not to mention workplace violence and armed intruders, are more com...
JAMDA
May 25, 2016