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Spotlight

March 31, 2023

Optimizing the Use of Gabapentin: A Special Drive to Deprescribe Podcast

Medication optimization is a hot topic in post-acute and long-term care and a focus of AMDA’s very popular Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) initiative. Now practitioners have yet another opportunity to address their deprescribing challenges with a new quarterly D2D podcast. The first program addresses Optimizing...
JAMDA

August 30, 2024

Oral Anticoagulant Use and Post-Fall Mortality in Long-Term Care Home Residents

Long-term care (LTC) residents are susceptible to falling and the risk of subsequent morbidity and mortality may be compounded with concurrent anticoagulation use. Uncertainty exists around the benefit and harm of anticoagulation use for residents with a high risk for falls because of concerns of major ble...

Oral Health

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Long Term Care Information Series

Oral Health in the Long-Term Care Setting

A wealth of epidemiological evidence demonstrates that the oral health status of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) patients is poor and that the oral care provided in the PALTC setting can be greatly improved. An equally abundant body of evidence supports the view that diseases of the oral cavity contr...