Persons with HIV have near-normal life expectancy with antiretroviral treatment,1 and so more individuals will develop chronic conditions and require nursing home (NH) care. The number of NH residents with HIV increased by 71% from 2000 to 2010.2...
Frailty has been associated with increased risks of various health conditions, disability, and death, which is a particular challenge to both health care providers and affected older persons.1 As an important predictor of disability,...
Tell your representative to join their colleagues in stopping a confluence of payment cuts to Medicare. In what amounts to a “perfect storm” of payment reductions going into effect in 2022, several Medicare spending cuts will result in a combined 9...
Tell your representative to join their colleagues in stopping a confluence of payment cuts to Medicare. In what amounts to a “perfect storm” of payment reductions going into effect in 2022, several Medicare spending cuts will result in a combined 9...
CMS is making it easier to check COVID-19 vaccination rates for nursing home staff and residents with a new feature on Medicare.gov . This announcement makes vaccination data available in a user-friendly format to help people make informed decisions...
CMS is making it easier to check COVID-19 vaccination rates for nursing home staff and residents with a new feature on Medicare.gov . This announcement makes vaccination data available in a user-friendly format to help people make informed decisions...
Telemedicine is here to stay. Whether you’ve been using it for years or just getting started, the digital playing field has changed during the pandemic and continues to evolve. To get and keep everyone in your practice on board, consider...
To develop a questionnaire-based Active Mobility Index (AMI) to assess going-out behavior with physical and social activity among older adults, and to assess the criterion-related and predictive validity of the AMI.
It is inconsistent in the literature on whether inequalities of health in older age widen or narrow over time. We assessed the associations of socioeconomic status (SES), physical functioning, and mortality in an older age cohort in Hong Kong.
Spasticity, a common, treatable movement disorder, is often undiagnosed and untreated in long-term care facilities (LTCFs).1–4 A new screening tool holds promise for addressing the under-recognition of spasticity in LTCFs, demonstrating high...
