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Position Statements

March 1, 1998

E98 - Position on Ethics Committees in Long Term Care

Resolutions

December 1, 1995

F95 - AMDA Board and Officers Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest

Resolutions

March 1, 1994

D94 - Dispensing Controlled Substances to Long Term Care Patients

Position Statements

December 1, 1995

H95 - Appropriate and Necessary Services

JAMDA

September 12, 2017

Conceptualizing a Dynamic Fall Risk Model Including Intrinsic Risks and Exposures

Falls are a major cause of injury and disability in older people, leading to serious health and social consequences including fractures, poor quality of life, loss of independence, and institutionalization. To design and provide adequate prevention measures, accurate understanding and identification of per...

JAMDA

July 27, 2017

Lifestyle Approaches for People With Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Multiple Case Analysis

Health care organizations supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) carry out a range of interventions to support and improve a healthy lifestyle. However, it is difficult to implement an active and healthy lifestyle into daily support. The presence of numerous intervention components, mu...

JAMDA

September 24, 2018

Validity of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment Scale for Evaluating Frailty Status in Older Adults

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) may not be performed in clinical practice as it takes too much time and requires special training. The Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is widely used to assess nutritional status in older adults. We aimed to determine whether or not the MNA can estimate frailty st...

JAMDA

November 27, 2019

Weakness May Have a Causal Association With Early Mortality in Older Americans: A Matched Cohort Analysis

Quantifying the association between muscle weakness and mortality with carefully matched cohorts will help to better establish the impact of weakness on premature death. We used a matched cohort analysis in a national sample of older Americans to determine if those who were weak had a higher risk for morta...

JAMDA

November 7, 2019

The Longitudinal Associations of Handgrip Strength and Cognitive Function in Aging Americans

Factors that are responsible for age-related neurologic deterioration of noncognitive and cognitive processes may have a shared cause. We sought to examine the temporal, directional associations of handgrip strength and cognitive function in a national sample of aging Americans.

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Keeping Ageism Out of the Workplace

Ageism is real, and it can result in big problems for your workplace. It can cause the loss of loyal, capable team members, and it can damage the company’s reputation and ability to engage a diverse workforce. Age discrimination in the workplace is illegal, plain and simple. A person’s age alone can’t be a...