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Falls and Fall Risk CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Falls
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
This tool guides physicians, other practitioners, and staff in assessing and managing individuals who have a recent history of falls or who are at risk of falling. This CPG will help identify ways to modify some of the risk factors for falls, as...

Diabetes Management CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Diabetes
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Residents of post-acute and long-term care (PA/LTC) facilities who have diabetes often take multiple medications and experience frequent infections, high rates of cardiovascular complications, dehydration, hospitalizations, hyperosmolar states, and...

Depression CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Depression
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Depressive symptoms are common among older adults and can have a major effect on their quality of life. It has been estimated that between 12 and 16% of older adults living in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities have major depression...

Dementia CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Dementia
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Dementia, a disorder characterized by progressive decline in multiple areas of cognitive function, causes a range of cognitive, mood, behavioral, and functional impairments. Optimal management of dementia involves the entire interdisciplinary team,...

Dehydration and Fluid Maintenance CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
This CPG offers a structured approach to the recognition, assessment, treatment, and monitoring of dehydration and fluid and electrolyte imbalances and acknowledges the ethical implications of this condition for patients, their families, and the...

Anemia CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Anemia
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Anemia is common in the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting, with a prevalence ranging from 34 - 60%, increasing with each decade of life over age 70. Anemia often goes unevaluated or is inadequately evaluated in the frail elderly. Studies...

Altered Nutritional Status CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Nutrition
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Weight has emerged as a principal screening and monitoring indicator in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) because it is easy to measure and the measurement is reasonably accurate and reproducible, noninvasive, acceptable to most patients, and...

Acute Change of Condition CPG

CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
Change of Condition
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
In the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting a primary goal of identifying acute change of conditions (ACOC) is to enable staff to evaluate and manage a patient at the facility and avoid the transfer to a hospital or emergency room. To...

In the Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans-Gender Persons in the Long-Term Care Setting

White Paper
Care Settings/Types, Ethics, Patient Centered, Resident
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Introduction As a group, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) older adults are members of a minority and historically disadvantaged sector of society. Most have spent the majority of their lives hiding sexual orientation and...

White Paper on the Survey Process

White Paper
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Survey
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
(White Paper M02, Becomes Policy March 2002) Introduction Some 130,000 pages of federal regulations govern nursing facilities in the United States, more than the accumulated regulations for the nuclear power industry. Each attempt to...