JAMDA
February 21, 2019
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Spotlight
February 23, 2023
New AMDA Course: Improve Psychiatric Outcomes with Skills, Competencies
This new course is designed to provide participants with information about addressing dementia and related behaviors, psychotropic prescribing safety, performing medication reviews, and caring for those residents with major chronic psychiatric illnesses.
News Release
March 4, 2022
AMDA to Administration: Be Broad, Innovative, and Practical in Efforts to Reform PALTC
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine applauds the Biden Administration’s continued focus on patients and residents in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC).
Chapter Event
Nov 07, 2024 12:30 pm - Nov 08, 2024 4:30 pm
MAGIC Annual Conference
St. Paul, MNThe MAGIC conference annually convenes clinicians in geriatrics to explore a wide range of topic including: Alzheimer's disease/dementia, THC/CBD, deprescribing, antipsychotic use, BEERS criteria, STOPP/START criteria, managing anxiety, delirium, behaviors (both pharmacological and non-pharmacological), MN Medication Repository Program, and other topics related to pharmacological interventions.
JAMDA
January 5, 2021
Incomplete Home Health Care Referral After Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Patients who are referred to home health care after an acute care hospitalization may not receive home health care, resulting in incomplete home health referrals. This study examines the prevalence of incomplete referrals to home health, defined as not receiving home health care within 7 days after an init...
JAMDA
May 9, 2025
Innovative Patient Access to Home-Based Primary Care in Central Virginia
Home-based primary care (HBPC) is uniquely capable of meeting the health care needs of homebound older adults, many of whom experience diminished access to primary care. Research demonstrations of HBPC have often recruited patients based on prior acute care utilization or around the time of hospital discha...
JAMDA
July 25, 2018
A Quality of Care Framework for Home-Based Medical Care
More than 6 million adults in the United States are homebound or semi-homebound and would benefit from home-based medical care (HBMC). There is currently no nationally recognized quality of care framework for home-based medical care. We sought to capture diverse stakeholder perspectives on the essential as...
JAMDA
May 20, 2016
Development of an Interdisciplinary Team Communication Framework and Quality Metrics for Home-Based Medical Care Practices
The unique needs of homebound adults receiving home-based medical care (HBMC) (ie, home-based primary care and home-based palliative care services) are ideally provided by interdisciplinary care teams (IDTs) that provide coordinated care. The composition of team members from an array of organizations and t...
JAMDA
November 14, 2019
Dementia Severity Associated With Increased Risk of Potentially Preventable Readmissions During Home Health Care
Approximately 14% of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to a hospital within 30 days of home health care admission. Individuals with dementia account for 30% of all home health care admissions and are at high risk for readmission. Our primary objective was to determine the association between dementia s...
JAMDA
September 13, 2022
Systematic Review of Rural and Urban Differences in Care Provided by Home Health Agencies in the United States
Home health care agencies (HHAs) are skilled care providers for Medicare home health beneficiaries in the United States. Rural HHAs face different challenges from their urban counterparts in delivering care (eg, longer distances to travel to patient homes leading to higher fuel/travel costs and fewer numbe...
