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From Lab Coat to Suit Jacket: The Business of Medicine

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
It’s not enough to be an excellent medical practitioner in the changing world of health care. In a landscape where costs and outcomes go hand in hand, data are essential for documenting your value to accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other...

Classic and Crusted Scabies: Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
Scabies is a contagious infection of the epidermis caused by infestation with Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis. These mites, which have a four- to eight-week life span, fertilize on the skin surface; the females then burrow into the stratum corneum to...

Nutrition and Immunity in Older Adults: What Matters and Why

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
It is well known that nutrition and health are greatly interconnected and that specific foods and individual nutrients can have an impact on human health. Strong evidence exists that there is an association between the consumption of certain...

Can an AI-Infused Exergame Help Improve Physical Function?

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
An artificial intelligence–infused dance-based exergame may help improve physical function in older adults, a pilot two-arm randomized controlled trial in Singapore found.

Vitamin D Supplements and Brain Health

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
Vitamin D is known to protect brain health, and vitamin D deficiency has been linked to cognitive impairment and decline. However, vitamin D supplements do not offer any significant improvement for brain health in individuals at risk for dementia, a...

Vaccine Education With the Moving Needles Program

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
Long-term care residents and frontline employees are at high risk of illness from infections, yet only 8% of these employees get vaccinated for COVID-19 and 45% for influenza, studies show.

Measles Preparedness in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: What Health Care Personnel Need to Know

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
Measles has reemerged in the United States, with outbreaks reported in multiple states, primarily in areas with low vaccination rates and particularly among unvaccinated children. Although most long-term care (LTC) residents are likely immune to...

A Crusted Scabies Story in a Nursing Home (A Case Study)

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
“Do you think this could be scabies?” Our experienced admissions coordinator posed this question to me about a perplexing rash on a new resident.

Infection Preventionists in Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2025
As many of us working in post-acute and long-term care know, the risk of infections in our communities is high. A frail resident population with weakened immune systems and multimorbidity, shared living spaces and close proximity of staff and...

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