Policy Snapshot
May 16, 2024
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JAMDA
April 4, 2024
“Geriatric Team Health Care Pathways”: An Organizational Innovation to Enhance Care Pathways of Long-Term Care Facilities’ Residents in the French Region of Occitania
Born out of the COVID crisis, an innovative disposal called “Geriatric Team Healthcare Pathways” (GTHPs) has been implemented in the Occitania area in the south of France. GTHPs can be considered as geriatric “hotlines” providing expertise and knowledge to long-term care facility (LTCF) professionals, purs...
Policy Snapshot
May 31, 2024
Society Joins the LTPAC HIT Collaborative in Comments on ONC Strategic Plan
Last week, the Society joined the LTPAC HIT Collaborative in submitting comments on the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Strategic Plan. In March 2024, ONC released the Draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. The previous strategic plan promoted a modern health IT infrastructure and drove...
Spotlight
June 6, 2024
Gladstone Award Recipient Finds Joy in Media Connections
Barbara Zarowitz, PharmD, MSW, BCPS, CGP, was surprised to receive the 2024 John Gladstone Award for Media Excellence. The award, named for AMDA’s long-time website administrator who passed away in 2022, is designed to honor and recognize contributions to the PALTC clinical community through a media projec...
Spotlight
July 24, 2024
An Exciting Time for Advocacy
Just because you’re a clinician doesn’t mean you can’t be a savvy advocate. In fact, the two roles often go hand in hand. On the most recent AMDA On-The-Hill podcast, Timothy Holahan, DO, CMD, chair of the Society’s Public Policy Steering Committee, talked about policy updates with host Alex Bardakh, MPP, ...
JAMDA
May 20, 2024
Psychological Resilience in Post-acute Care: A Cross-Sectional Study of Health Care Workers in Singapore Community Hospitals
Psychological resilience is a crucial component of mental health and well-being for health care workers. It is positively linked to compassion satisfaction and inversely associated with burnout. The current literature on health care worker resilience has mainly focused on primary care and tertiary hospital...
JAMDA
May 22, 2024
The Association of Ancillary Diagnostic Tests With Outcome in Dementia
Dementia is a clinical diagnosis without curative treatment. It is uncertain whether ancillary testing is beneficial for patients. This study investigates the association between use of diagnostic tests and time to poor outcome and health care costs.
JAMDA
April 27, 2024
The Impact of Social Vulnerability on Alcohol Consumption and Mortality: A 20-year Age, Sex-stratified Analysis from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study of Aging
This study aimed to use the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to encapsulate the complex and multidimensional nature of social determinants and their influence on alcohol intake and mortality in middle-aged and older individuals.
JAMDA
September 1, 2025
The Risk of Dementia Following Hearing Disorder Onset: A National Cohort Study
This study aimed to examine the association between all-cause hearing disorder onset and dementia risk, owing to prior reports of inconsistencies and untested potential biases.
JAMDA
September 10, 2025