Publications

Many long-term care facilities inappropriately use POLST forms to document the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) preferences for all residents, creating the potential for their inappropriate use in healthy individuals, researchers write in a...

There are many challenges for the Assisted Living Subcommittee of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Among them, said Chair Sarah Howd, MD, CMD, assistant professor of medicine and geriatrics at the University of...

For the past 12 years, Caring for the Ages readers have looked forward to the “Dear Dr. Jeff” columns. In his dozens of articles, Jeffrey Nichols, MD, CMD, addressed issues both common and controversial, public and personal, clinical and operational...

One of the certain benefits of providing elder care within an organized living setting is the ability of the provider to operationalize standards that support consistency of care practices. Although assisted living settings have long been considered...