Complete Story
05/04/2022
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | May 4
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Medications Associated With Geriatric Syndromes (MAGS) and Hospitalization Risk in Home Health Care Patients
- JAMDA: Reduced Pneumonia Risk in Advanced Dementia Patients on Careful Hand Feeding Compared With Nasogastric Tube Feeding
- Facility characteristics and costs associated with meeting proposed minimum staffing levels in skilled nursing facilities
- Transitions of care in Clostridioides difficile infection: a need of the hour
- BABEL (Better tArgeting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients) advance care planning: a comprehensive approach to advance care planning in nursing homes: a cluster randomised trial
- Association of Influenza Vaccination With Cardiovascular Risk
- Sex-Driven Differences in the Effectiveness of Individualized Clinical Management of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Research Reports/White Papers
- Enhancing Frontline Nurse Management in Long-Term Services and Supports
- Second Booster for COVID-19 Vaccination: Early Results
- The Coming Alzheimer’s Disease Healthcare Revolution - US Physician and Adult Perspectives on the Future of Diagnostics and Treatment
Podcasts/Webinars
- Recording of last week’s More of a Good Thing kickoff roundtable discussion
- TOMORROW: CDC COCA: Evaluating and Supporting Patients Presenting with Cognitive Symptoms Following COVID, May 5, 2022, 2:00 PM ET
News/News Analysis
- CMS: Sunsetting TNA Program, PHE Waivers the Right Next Step for Nursing Homes
- Nursing Homes Pay ‘Exorbitant’ Agency Costs to Comply With Staffing Minimums
- New quality measure thresholds could lower providers’ star ratings, experts warn
- Paxlovid’s failure as a preventative measure raises questions, but doctors still back it as a therapeutic
- South Africa’s latest surge is a possible preview of the pandemic’s next chapter.
- Fauci: COVID-19 Is Here to Stay, but We Can Control It — Next steps may include variant-specific vaccines
- Dual enrollment status, state regulations affect end-of-life care in assisted living: study
- Greenspace exposure could improve cognitive function