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PALTmed In The News
August 5, 2024
Long-term care docs warn why better oversight of diagnostic testing is needed
To test or not to test? It’s a question that often plagues healthcare professionals as they try to decide which diagnostic procedures are necessary for the treatment of their patients — and those which are not needed, or may even be harmful. There is no time to waste when it comes to getting better at diag...
Caring for the Ages
June 30, 2018
Long-Term Care Dollars Moving Back Home
JAMDA
January 24, 2022
Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Lessons From the Asian Approach: A Narrative Review
The COVID-19 pandemic put into question the organizational skills of LTCF. The containment measures implemented in several Asian countries avoided heavy death tolls in LTCF in contrast to other countries across the globe. The aim of this review is therefore to investigate and illustrate the measures that w...
JAMDA
March 13, 2020
Long-Term Care Facilities and the Coronavirus Epidemic: Practical Guidelines for a Population at Highest Risk
JAMDA
October 15, 2025
Long-Term Care Facilities by Design: The Different Preferences of Location, Features, and Policies of LTC Facilities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Adults in Germany
This study explored the preferences about features, policies, and location of long-term care (LTC) facilities among cis- and transgender individuals with different forms of sexual orientation, that is, identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB), in comparison with each other and to those identified as h...
Policy Snapshot
July 15, 2022
Long-Term Care Facilities: Nursing Home Five Star Rating Changes
With the July 2022 Care Compare refresh, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System to include weekend staffing and staff turnover measures.
JAMDA
July 6, 2020
Long-Term Care Facility Ownership and Acute Hospital Service Use in British Columbia, Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Previous studies report higher hospitalization rates in for-profit compared with nonprofit long-term care facilities (LTCFs), but have not included staffing data, a major potential confounder. Our objective was to examine the effect of ownership on hospital admission rates, after adjusting for facility sta...
JAMDA
November 21, 2018
Long-term Care for Older Adults in Africa: Pay Attention to the Situation of Older Women
JAMDA
August 28, 2018
Long-term Care for Older Adults in Africa: Whither Now?
