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Serious Mental Illness in Assisted Living Communities: Association with Nursing Home Placement

JAMDA
April 1, 2024
Assess prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI) alone, and co-occurring with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD), among Medicare beneficiaries in assisted living (AL). Examine the association between permanent nursing home (NH)...

Anticipated and Experienced Barriers to Telehealth in Congregate Care Facilities Across Virginia

JAMDA
April 1, 2024
The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) raised important questions of how best to apply telehealth to enable delivery of timely, high-quality health care to medically vulnerable individuals who reside in long-term care facilities. Looking back to...

Recognizing Excellence Takes Center Stage

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Post-acute and long-term care practitioners often wear many hats, and they keep their heads down and their eyes on the goal of the best possible care and quality of life for their patients. Those around them are equally busy, so there is little time...

Clostridioides difficile: New Insights on Management in the Older Patient

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of antibiotic-associated infective diarrhea in the United States. According to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)...

Goals-of-Care Discussions: Is Your Team Conversation Ready?

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Having meaningful goals-of-care discussions is vital for delivering person-centered care that aligns with each individual’s unique goals, preferences, and priorities. These conversations can be difficult, and staff don’t always feel empowered or...

No Fear of Heights: Ladders and Lattices for CNAs

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Senior contributor Joanne Kaldy talks to Claire Enright, executive director, Quality Care Health Foundation, and Lori Porter, CEO and cofounder of the National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA) about advice they have for those looking to...

It’s Personal: On Gaining an Inclusive Consciousness and Becoming an Ally

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
In retirement (after I caught up on sleep) my brain was ready for some non-medical activation, so I joined my college’s online book club. The first book we read was Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020)...

Promoting Nursing Home Success: A Business Model Supporting Frontline Staff Retention and Resident Outcomes

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Since the pandemic, employment stabilization has been an ongoing issue. Post-acute and long-term care communities, including skilled nursing facilities, are lagging behind other fields in returning to pre-COVID staffing levels (I. Telesford et al...

Futures Fellows at PALTC24

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Participants at this years Futures Program at PALTC24 enjoyed a stimulating program full of talks, career coaching, and networking. Our managing editor stopped in to take a few photos of their experience.

Can Adequate Nutrition Aid in the Prevention and Treatment of Frailty in Older Adults?

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
With older adults experiencing longer life expectancies, one of the goals of healthy aging is to prevent frailty to maintain independence. Frailty is defined as “a clinically recognizable state of increased vulnerability resulting from aging-...