MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Arif Nazir, MD, CMD, doesn’t just want to work. He doesn’t even just want to make a contribution. He wants to move the needle on key challenges facing post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). He’s long suspected...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join How do you determine what issues to address and how to be forward thinking when there are so many topics, concerns, needs, and challenges demanding our attention? “It is like looking over a cliff at the vastness...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join You can take 20 minutes today and help shape care for older adults across the nation. AMDA member Ilo Leppik, MD, and his colleagues are conducting a survey to obtain information regarding the current approach to...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join While everyone is eager to move beyond the pandemic, it is essential to examine what we’ve been through, where there were triumphs and failures, and what changes will be necessary and beneficial moving forward...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join On January 26, 2021, Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, FAAN, FANNP, got a voicemail message from James E. Lett, II, MD, CMDR, chair of the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine. She recalls, “My...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join During this past 14 months, Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, has worked tirelessly to protect post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents, interdisciplinary teams, and colleagues around the world as COVID-19 spread...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When it comes to behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), suggests Angela Norman, DNP, GNP-BD, ACNP-BC, “Past practice was to wait until there was a problem and then react.” The Well-Being Model (...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “I think this award is really for all of us this year,” says Leslie Eber, MD, CMD, AMDA’s 2021 Medical Director of the Year. “We have all risen to the occasion and put compassion and diligence at the forefront...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Milta Oyola Little, DO, CMD, came to her first AMDA Annual Conference in 2010 as a participant in the Foundation Futures Program. She knew that post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) was where she wanted to work and...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join During the pandemic, patients and families alike gained a new appreciation for the value of advance care planning. How to continue the focus on this important intervention will be part of the discussion at the...
