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Grover’s Disease: An Uncommon Diagnosis and a Simple Fix

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Grover's disease (GD) is a transient acantholytic dermatosis, manifesting as a papular skin eruption mainly on the chest, back, lumbar area, and extremities. It mostly affects Caucasians in the fifth decade or later and is more common in men. It is...

Fentanyl Overdose in a Nursing Facility: Call for Bedside Naloxone

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
There has been a rise in patients with substance use disorders (SUD) in the post-acute and long-term care setting due aging patients with SUD, and younger patients with SUD who require admission for ongoing care after acute hospitalization for...

Dementia and Neurosyphilis, Are We Honoring the Patient’s Wishes?

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Dementia (major neurocognitive disorder) is characterized by a decline in cognition severe enough to interfere with daily function and independence Syphilis is a chronic infection caused by treponema pallidum. Syphilis progresses into four stages if...

Delirium with Psychosis in an Elderly Woman with Autoimmune Encephalitis

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Delirium is very common in elderly patients with acute illnesses. Patients can display a broad array of symptoms ranging from lethargy to severe behavioral abnormality (1). Antipsychotics were used in a case of delirium that turned out to be due to...

Considerations of Care in Dementia of Schizophrenia

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
With an aging population, there is increasing number of persons with schizophrenia and dementia in the post-acute and long-term care settings. By eighty years of age, the prevalence of dementia diagnoses is 70.2% in persons with schizophrenia,...

Cognitive Assessment in Post Acute Care

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Patients get admitted to Post Acute Care (PAC) facilities for rehabilitation or skilled nursing care. Some of these patients complete their treatment and return home, while others may require transition to long-term care or assisted living. This...

Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob: How barriers to diagnosis delay essential care

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a fatal, rapidly-progressive dementia, caused by prion proteins. Changes in personality, mood, and motor function, are common in association with CJD. Often a diagnostic challenge, it relies on the clinical exam,...

Bullous Pemphigoid in the Elderly

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Bullous pemphigoid is a chronic autoimmune subepidermal blistering skin disease that primarily affects the elderly [1]. Clinically, it presents as urticaria-like and pruritic erythematous lesions that subsequently develop into large tense bullae [1...

Benefits of Multi-disciplinary Management in a Patient with Mixed Dementia

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Vascular and neurodegenerative disorders frequently present as mixed dementia phenotype. The most common type of mixed dementia is Alzheimer’s Dementia (AD) with vascular dementia. Dementia symptoms can develop at an earlier age when AD and vascular...

Beer Potomania Post-Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge

JAMDA
May 1, 2024
Patients who are discharged home following prolonged skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may need re-adjustment to resume living in an unsupervised environment. We present a patient who was readmitted to the hospital within days of discharge from a...