Overtreatment by glucose-lowering treatment (GLT) is frequent, and may induce harmful hypoglycemic events in older people with type 2 diabetes (T2D), significantly increasing morbidity and mortality.1 Avoiding overtreatment by GLT, either by...
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced new actions to reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and to bring greater transparency...
Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report noting that “better protection are needed for future emergencies” like the COVID-19 pandemic. The report found that “more than a thousand nursing homes reached infection rates of 75...
On December 6, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorization for medical items and...
On December 6, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorization for medical items and...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The closing keynote at PALTC23 won’t be a lecture or even a motivational presentation. It will be more like an entertaining, enlightening conversation with a friend who knows you and truly appreciates who you are...
Identifying risk factors for falls can improve outcomes in older patients without cognitive decline. Yet this has not been demonstrated in older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We therefore sought to better identify risk factors for...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, no country with widespread community transmission has avoided outbreaks or deaths in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). As RACF residents are at high risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19, understanding...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and pervasive impact on psychosocial health and disrupted care systems world-wide. Our research aims to assess the psychosocial impact of the pandemic and related changes in chronic care provision on patients...
To examine the association between the baseline number of chronic diseases and multimorbidity with regard to the incidence of all and injurious falls over 3 years among European community-dwelling older adults.
