Despite federal regulations that set the standards of care and safety in about 15,000 nursing homes nationwide, evidence of common mistreatment (eg, abuse and neglect) of individuals living in these care settings is well documented.1,2 For example,...
We read with great interest the recent multisite study by Lynch et al1 examining dementia stage among hospitalized individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. With its large sample size and systematic data collection approach, the...
Sedentary behavior is highly prevalent among older hospitalized patients across acute, subacute, and intermediate care settings and is associated with frailty and higher mortality, reinforcing the need for systematic mobilization and therapeutic...
Social determinants of health (SDH) are defined as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, including the broader forces shaping those conditions.1 These determinants—housing stability, social support, food access, and...
Post-acute and long-term care (PA/LTC) operates under sustained pressure from workforce shortages, multimorbidity, and a documentation burden implicated in clinician burnout.1 In 2026, the frontier large language model (LLM) landscape, led by Claude...
