To review existing literature evaluating barriers and facilitators to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by health care workers in long-term care (LTC).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened the Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period on November 21, 2022 . The preview period provides an opportunity for doctors and clinicians to review their 2021 Quality Payment Program (QPP)...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines: December 31, 2022 Last day of the 2022 performance year, after which...
The diagnostic utility of poor body composition measures in sarcopenia remains unclear. We hypothesize that the skeletal muscle gauge [combination of skeletal muscle mass index (SMI) and skeletal muscle density (SMD); SMG = SMI × SMD] would have...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA always seeks to target the issues of greatest interest to members and help them address the challenges they face every day. Toward that end, Caring for the Ages will feature a special issue next year on...
The purpose of this study is to expand on previous work testing the relationship between person-centered care (PCC) and quality outcomes in the nursing home (NH) setting. We explore if the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI)...
Approximately 2% of older adults currently live in nursing homes. It is important that the risks for vision loss be characterized to ensure appropriate vision care is provided for nursing home patients. Our objective was to evaluate the association...
Using the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS2019) and the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP2) criteria, this study examined associations of sarcopenia and its components with specific domains of cognitive impairment...
