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Understanding the F-Tag Revisions for Substance Use Disorder in Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
F-tag revisions defining and addressing substance use disorder (SUD) explicitly for the first time include new language on visitation and elopement, which demands more comprehensive care planning and often more monitoring and supervision, said...

Reviewing Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Medications: What to Know in the Nursing Home Setting

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
A review of antiplatelet and anticoagulation medications in skilled nursing patients to determine what is still indicated for each individual entails probing not only for current goals of care and bleeding and ischemic risks, but for the original...

Leading With Purpose: Practical Strategies for Engaging Your Careforce

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
With the introduction of a new staffing rule for nursing homes and with acuity in assisted living facilities and nursing homes on the rise, it has never been more important to retain experienced, engaged staff. That is the focus of “Leading With...

Catch and Release: Reclaim Joy and Release Stress and Burnout

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
Day by day, stress, anxiety, work demands, and life challenges can chip away at happiness until we forget about why we do what we do and how we made choices in our lives that brought us to where we are. It’s time for that to change, and a session at...

Cultivating Relationships Between CNAs and Medical Directors

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
Senior contributor Joanne Kaldy talks to Sing Palat, MD, CMD, Sherry Perry, and Sheena Bumpas about how the medical director and facility CNAs can establish and maintain productive relationships.

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertainties About AI

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
At the start of “Ethical Considerations in Applying AI,” a session at PALTC24, the Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, Timothy Holahan, DO, CMD, made an observation that sums up both the challenges and...

Heads Up: Considerations for Falls With Minor Head Impact in Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
It’s a common scenario for long-term care practitioners: residents fall, hit their head, are sent to the emergency department (ED), and return after an extensive, unrevealing workup (and, of course, with the diagnosis of “UTI”). The facility then...

Advancing Health Care Equity: A Memory Care Unit in a Large New York City Public Nursing Home

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
The 150-bed memory care unit (MCU) at Coler Rehabilitation & Nursing Care Center has a two-thirds racial and ethnic minority population. The unit’s residents have been impacted by social determinants of health associated with poor health...

Medicare Home Health Care Outcomes Different by Race

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
There are significant differences in Medicare Home Health Care outcomes between underrepresented racial and ethnic groups compared with white individuals, U.S. researchers found from a secondary data analysis.

Delirium May Not Impact Rehabilitation After COVID-19 Infection

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2024
Delirium does not affect the trajectory of activities of daily living (ADL) and quality of life (QoL) during acute infection or geriatric rehabilitation, a European study found.