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JAMDA

January 19, 2024

Exploring Staffing Levels in Adult Day Services: Does Profit Status Matter?

For more than 4 decades, adult day service centers (ADSCs) have provided long-term care services and socialization to hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. An important part of the long-term care continuum, ADSCs serve older adults and adults with disabilities, many of whom have low incomes...
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August 23, 2024

New D2D Course Takes Practitioners Further Down the Deprescribing Highway

The concept of deprescribing has gained traction in recent years, and the Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) program takes the wheel with a new course, Design Your Deprescribing Intervention, which launched earlier this month. “Our audience was craving more documents, materials, and information to bring back to th...
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Oct 18, 2024 1:00 pm - Oct 19, 2024 5:10 pm

MIMDA: Twenty-Eighth Annual Scientific Meeting of the Michigan Medical Directors Association

Gaylord, MI

Join your fellow providers in PALTC to learn what’s new in the service of this vulnerable patient population in our unique settings while enjoying the beauty of northern Michigan in the Fall. Sessions include: updates and trends in the survey process, health inequities in elder care, managing spasms & contractures, and more. Once again, we will have a half-day program Friday afternoon bootcamp for PATLC providers: Essentials in Post Acute and Long Term Care. If you want to learn the ins and outs of working in nursing homes, come hear from the best.

This year MIMDA will again provide a Bootcamp for providers in post-acute and long-term care. This informative session is a "must" for folks entering practice in the extended care world, it will provide pearls of wisdom for veterans as well.

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Top 10 Particularly Dangerous Drug Interactions in PALTC

Recent studies have shown that adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are common among nursing home residents, and frequently go unrecognized or the symptoms attributed to another condition. Many ADRs are due to drug-drug interactions. The occurrence of an interaction depends on many factors, including the inherent...