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01/31/2024
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | January 31
News
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- A CDC Update on the Draft 2024 Guideline to Prevent Transmission of Pathogens in Healthcare Settings
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: A Paradigm Shift in Caregiver Preparation: From Information Provision to Enhanced Collaborative Care-element Optimization (ECCO)
- Unequal loss: Disparities in relational closeness to a COVID-19 death among U.S. older adults
- Clin-STAR corner: Practice-changing advances at the interface of surgery and geriatrics
- Mapping potentially inappropriate medications in older adults using the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system
Research/White Papers
- Effectiveness of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing COVID-19–Related Thromboembolic Events Among Medicare Enrollees Aged ?65 Years and Those with End Stage Renal Disease — United States, September 2022–March 2023
- Posture analysis produces the most accurate fall risk profiles for seniors, study shows
- Playing musical instrument linked to better brain health in older adults, study finds
Podcasts/Webinars
- JAMDA On-The-Go featuring the January 2024 issue of JAMDA
- Reducing Pressure Injuries in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: What have we been missing? - AELTCC, February 22, 2024, 11:00 AM ET
News/News Analysis
- Senate Probes the Cost of Assisted Living and Its Burden on American Families
- Inside the CMS Policies That Could Improve Care, Payments for Dual-Eligible Nursing Home Residents
- Policymakers, providers must take steps to prevent staff mass turnover, researchers say
- A Barometer of Nursing Home Sector’s Financial Health, HUD Lending Seen as Rising in 2024
- Pilot study on direct care workers to inform future nationwide survey
- Time with Patients, Wages, Company Culture Are Top Priorities for Nursing Home Staff, Survey Shows
- Research Finds Home-Based Care Among Top End-of-Life Trajectories for Americans
- Arizona legislators call for more transparency, improved safety in assisted living
- ‘Really Hard Time’: NY Nursing Home Sector, Union Demand $810M in Medicaid Funds, Cite Payroll Shortfalls
- South Dakota’s DHS Requests Extra Funds To Support Staffing, Census at Nursing Homes
