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PALTC, The Specialty That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Back in the early 1990s, not long after I hired on full-time with what was then Mission Park Medical Group in Oceanside, CA, I began doing utilization review for our group. We had a lot of Medicare Advantage patients — or “senior managed care lives...

How to Go From Wide Awake to Sweet Dreams

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Caring for the Ages editor-in-chief Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, talks about insomnia — how to prevent it and how to address it.

Comment on: New Influenza Drug Brings New Promise

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
For the treatment of influenza, a full course of therapy ranges in price and is approximately the following, based on recent www.goodrx.com pricing (as of April 5, 2019). When comparing the prices of these agents, note that they will vary depending...

News From the Society

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
The Society’s House of Delegates (HoD) tackled a full agenda at its meeting during the organization’s recent annual conference in Atlanta, GA. The group reviewed a number of items and passed the following:

In This Issue

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Adapting to the radical redesign in payment process will require excellence in collaboration from everyone working in a SNF. 3

Caring, In Your Own Words: Call for Stories

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
As editors of Caring for the Ages, we often hear from the readers that opinions, news, and advice from their colleagues in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) is what they value the most in our publication. As we pursue our vision of Caring as the...

Don’t Miss These Events

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Website: https://paltc.org/core

Journal Highlights From the May Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Clinicians should be able to offer appropriate assessment and treatment for individuals who have orthostatic syncope (OS), even those individuals with advanced age and cognitive impairment, researchers from Italy wrote in an editorial in the May...

Becoming Informed About Trauma

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Dear Dr. Jeff: In preparing for the phase 3 federal requirements that will become effective soon, our facility has been confused regarding a new requirement to provide culturally competent “trauma-informed” care. We don’t understand where CMS is...

New Influenza Drug Brings New Promise

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Currently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)recommend that everyone 6 months of age and older receive a flu vaccine every season. Because the influenza virus replicates and mutates frequently, the vaccine often does not contain all...