Overview
Dr. Milta Oyola Little has extensive experience in caring and advocating for older adults across care settings, including the entire post-acute and long-term care continuum, inpatient geriatric consultation, outpatient primary care/consultation, home care, and hospice. She currently serves as medical director for The Forest at Duke Continuing Care Retirement Community and for the North Carolina Longevity Health Plan institutional Special Needs Plan (a Medicare Managed Care insurance). Dr. Little has completed four elected board terms for AMDA: The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and is the current President-Elect of The Society. Her primary scholarly interests are interprofessional education, deprescribing initiatives, and implementation of Dementia-Friendly and Age-Friendly Health System programs across settings of care. Dr. Little is currently working on the implementation of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy and development of clinical programs to address the longitudinal needs of PLWD and their caregivers in the Duke Health system.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Medicine
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2025 - Present
Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care,
Medicine
Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
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2020 - Present
Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Appropriate Antipsychotic Use in Nursing Home Populations: A Wakeup Call to CMS.
Journal Article J Am Med Dir Assoc · October 2023 Full text Link to item CitePerspectives on Deprescribing in long-term care: qualitative findings from nurses, aides, residents, and proxies.
Journal Article BMC Nurs · January 31, 2023 BACKGROUND: Deprescribing initiatives in the long-term care (LTC) setting are often unsuccessful or not sustained. Prior research has considered how physicians and pharmacists feel about deprescribing, yet little is known about the perspectives of frontlin ... Full text Link to item CiteHealthcare for older adults in North America: challenges, successes and opportunities.
Journal Article Age Ageing · October 6, 2022 Older adults in North America face similar challenges to successful ageing as other adults around the world, including an increased risk of geriatric syndromes and functional decline, limited access to healthcare professionals specialising in geriatrics an ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Models of Post-Acute Care in Complex Older Adults with Fracture
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute · 2024 - 2030Remote Patient Monitoring of Family Caregivers of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Prepped Health · 2021 - 2023Cognitive Stimulation Therapy across a healthcare system to improve clinical outcomes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dementia Alliance of North Carolina · 2020 - 2022View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine ·
2006
D.O.