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April 19, 2023

Staying on Track with Infection Issues

One hallmark of AMDA is that the organization is proactive and follows through on key issues. Case in point: the Infection Advisory Subcommittee, which was highly engaged during the pandemic but continues to work tirelessly to support members and post-acute and long-term care residents nationwide.

Caring for the Ages

July 27, 2017

Steering a Transition in Antibiotic Prescribing: Just-in-Time, Not Just-in-Case

Caring for the Ages

October 26, 2016

Steps Toward Building a Better Team

JAMDA

February 23, 2021

Sterocoral Colitis: A Serious Complication of Constipation

Caring for the Ages

March 31, 2020

Stewardship in the Modern World

Caring for the Ages

December 31, 2024

Stimulating the Brain, Stimulating Joy: How Music Therapy Helps Residents With Dementia

JAMDA

February 19, 2015

Stoned: Drug-induced Renal Calculi in a Patient on Long-term Triamterene

JAMDA

June 11, 2015

Stooped Position in Elderly Patients With Alzheimer Disease

JAMDA

December 11, 2018

STOP-FALLING: A Simple Checklist Tool for Fall Prevention in a Nursing Facility

Falls are highly prevalent and lead to major health morbidity and mortality in older adults. We developed a “STOP-FALLING” checklist as a multifactorial intervention tool kit for a single long-term care facility. The objective of this study was to determine feasibility and adherence of the checklist, and t...

JAMDA

October 3, 2019

Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD) in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes

The Ethics Subcommittee of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (“The Society”) presents arguments for and against Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD). SED by AD is a type of advance directive in which a proxy is instructed to stop offering food and fluids ...