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July 7, 2025

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" and Its Impact on Medicaid, Medicare, and Long-Term Care

On July 4, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA). Go here to get an overview of its key implications for the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings.

JAMDA

October 17, 2025

Association of Body Weight Changes Over 1 Year With the Incidence of Functional Disability and All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults: The Shizuoka Kokuho Database Study

Body weight changes have been reported to increase mortality risk in older adults. However, the prognostic significance of short-term weight changes (during 1 year), particularly for functional disability, is unclear. We aimed to clarify the association between 1-year changes in body weight and the inciden...

JAMDA

February 20, 2020

The Post-Acute Delayed Discharge Risk Scale: Derivation and Validation With Ontario Alternate Level of Care Patients in Ontario Complex Continuing Care Hospitals

To describe and validate the Post-acute Delayed Discharge Risk Scale (PADDRS), which classifies patients by risk of delayed discharge on admission to post-acute care settings using information collected with the interRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS) 2.0 assessment.

JAMDA

August 31, 2016

Differences in Nursing Home Quality Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Patients

Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment is steadily growing, but little is known about the quality of nursing home (NH) care provided to MA enrollees compared to enrollees in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.

JAMDA

May 7, 2016

Comparing the Effects of Cognitive Stimulation, Reminiscence, and Aroma-Massage on Agitation and Depressive Mood in People With Dementia

Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST), reminiscence therapy (RT), and aroma-massage therapy (AT) are believed to be beneficial for people with dementia (PwD). However, the comparing effects of these interventions have not been reported in previous studies. The purpose of this research was thus to compare the...

JAMDA

June 23, 2016

Prevalence and Medication Management of Dementia by a Medical Practice Providing Onsite Care in Assisted Living

Assisted living (AL) is an important provider of long-term residential care to people with dementia, but little research has used clinician's records—arguably the most reliable and valid source of medically related information. This article uses clinician records to examine the prevalence of dementia,...

JAMDA

May 6, 2016

Impact of a Videoconference Educational Intervention on Physical Restraint and Antipsychotic Use in Nursing Homes: Results From the ECHO-AGE Pilot Study

US nursing homes care for increasing numbers of residents with dementia and associated behavioral problems. They often lack access to specialized clinical expertise relevant to managing these problems. Project ECHO-AGE provides this expertise through videoconference sessions between frontline nursing home ...

JAMDA

September 16, 2019

Antibiograms Cannot Be Used Interchangeably Between Acute Care Medical Centers and Affiliated Nursing Homes

To determine whether antibiograms for Veterans Affairs (VA) nursing homes (NHs), termed Community Living Centers, are similar to those from their affiliated acute care medical centers.

JAMDA

April 25, 2018

Can Bisphosphonates Prevent Recurrent Fragility Fractures? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Although a few trials have explored whether bisphosphonates (BPs) prevented recurrent fragility fractures (FFs), little is known about the secondary preventative effects of BPs. Thus, we performed a meta-analysis to examine the effects of BPs on prevention of subsequent fractures, mortality, and on bone me...