JAMDA
May 30, 2025
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Spotlight
August 8, 2024
Ensure Your Words Make a Positive Difference
The words we use and how we use them can significantly impact the effectiveness of our interactions with others. In a recent podcast, host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, and guest Aya Caspi, a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, discussed how to speak and listen in ways that let...
Spotlight
September 13, 2024
Updated Diabetes CPG: Team Tool for Today’s PALTC
Clinical guidance on any issue changes as new medications, interventions, technologies, and best practices emerge and new studies come out. That is certainly true of PALTmed’s Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). The just-revised Diabetes Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting CPG includes...
JAMDA
July 10, 2025
Usage and Costs of Regular Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) in Canadian Long-Term Care Facilities
Evidence suggests that the use of regular acetaminophen (paracetamol) in long-term care (LTC) is a low-value intervention, that it does not improve pain or quality of life, and that it has the potential for adverse effects. Our objective was to assess the usage of regular acetaminophen in Canadian LTC faci...
JAMDA
June 22, 2024
External Validation and Further Exploration of Fall Prediction Models Based on Questionnaires and Daily-Life Trunk Accelerometry
Ambulatory measurements of trunk accelerations can provide valuable insight into the amount and quality of daily life activities. Such information has been used to create models to identify individuals at high risk of falls. However, external validation of such prediction models is lacking, yet crucial for...
JAMDA
October 19, 2024
Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Post-acute and Long-Term Care: A Scoping Review
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an emerging application of ultrasonography that is being integrated into patient care in many medical specialties. The post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting has opportunities to adopt POCUS as a diagnostic aid to improve patient outcomes. We aim (1) to describe t...
Policy Snapshot
October 7, 2024
Deadline Extended: Urge Your Members of Congress to Take Action on Medicare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (MPFS) that includes yet another 2.8% cut to Medicare payments on January 1, 2025. Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, MD (R-IA) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), along with a bipartisan grou...
JAMDA
November 22, 2021
Pain Management in the Post-acute and Long-Term Care Setting: A Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) from the Society for Post-acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA)
This comprehensive clinical guideline addresses pain issues that arise in care of patients commonly seen in post-acute and long-term care settings, including very old and frail individuals with multiple chronic medical and psychiatric conditions, short-stay patients needing posthospitalization care, and yo...
JAMDA
July 4, 2020
Long-Term Care, Residential Facilities, and COVID-19: An Overview of Federal and State Policy Responses
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected residents and staff at long-term care (LTC) and other residential facilities in the United States. The high morbidity and mortality at these facilities has been attributed to a combination of a particularly vulnerable population and a lack of resources ...
JAMDA
May 14, 2021
Digital Health Interventions among People Living with Frailty: A Scoping Review
Digital health interventions (DHIs) are interesting resources to improve various health conditions. However, their use in the older and frail population is still sparse. We aimed to give an overview of DHI used in the frail older population.
