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Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
With 2020 now over — thank goodness — the thinking now shifts to what the rest of the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-pandemic world will look like. In the midst of unpredictable change due to the pandemic, there also will be a changeover in the...
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
Registration is now open for PALTC21, the Virtual Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine on March 11–14. This family reunion for PALTC practitioners everywhere offers leading experts discussing the topics...
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
Individuals who have advanced dementia or other conditions that put them at a high risk of death within six months may benefit from a reduction of blood pressure medications, yet deprescribing occurs in less than half of these individuals, according...
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
Benefits of oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation outweigh their risks for older adults. 7
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
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Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
In this month’s column, Dr. Jeff continues to answer the question from the November/December 2020 issue, focusing on deprescribing.
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
Every day across the United States and the world, health care providers demonstrate quiet humanity as they deliver patient care during a pandemic. Here are just a few stories that exemplify that from Legacy Care, an independent medical group of...
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
The treatment of elevated cholesterol, particularly with β-hydroxy β-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, commonly known as statins, is measured by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in various different ways. Statin Use...
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
The chief cause of problems is solutions.— Eric Sevareid
Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the medical humanitarian care organization that has worked for 50 years in conflict zones and on infectious disease outbreaks throughout the world, for the first time in its history has stepped...