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JAMDA
September 12, 2025
Transfers to acute care hospitals expose long-term care residents to potential harm. We implemented Long-Term Care Plus (LTC+) at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce emergency department (ED) transfers and improve access to urgent medical services by providing virtual specialist consultation, sys...
JAMDA
April 9, 2025
Assessing the changing care needs of home care clients is challenging due to the increasing multimorbidity and heterogeneity of geriatric syndromes, including frailty, functional decline, and cognitive impairment. We described the correlation between subjective judgment of changes in self-sufficiency and m...
JAMDA
June 5, 2025
To evaluate sedentary behaviors among older adults in residential care homes and explore potential mechanisms leading to sedentary behaviors based on the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation to Behavior (COM-B) model.
JAMDA
June 9, 2025
This study aimed to examine the potential impact of Medicaid total long-term services and supports (LTSS) expenditures and the proportion allocated to home- and community-based services (HCBS) on unmet needs among community-dwelling older adults with dementia.
JAMDA
July 17, 2025
To investigate the relationship between unmet needs for family caregiver support, defined as lack of caregiver availability or capacity, and home health care (HH) service types delivered to patients with dementia.
JAMDA
November 5, 2025
To identify risk factors of elder mistreatment (EM) diagnosis among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries receiving Medicare Home Health Care (HHC).
JAMDA
November 26, 2025
Our objective was to establish consensus-guided expectations for primary care physician (PCP) commitment in Canadian long-term care (LTC) homes, developing a comprehensive framework for this multifaceted concept.
JAMDA
March 21, 2025
Home health care (HHC) plays a pivotal role in serving millions of US adults aging in place. Although the HHC population is growing rapidly in both size and diversity, driven by an aging US population and a changing demographic profile, there are increasing concerns of equity in HHC, particularly regarding...
Practice Management Tools
Extensively updated to reflect major E/M coding changes for 2023, The Guide to Post-Acute and Long Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation, is a popular and must-have publication that contains important documentation and medical decision making requirements as well as one or two Society-develope...
Policy Snapshot
November 8, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its final rule for the Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS), which includes updates to Medicare payment policies and rates for Home Health Agencies (HHAs). Among the key changes, CMS is finalizing a new dat...