Dheeraj Mahajan, MD, FACP, CMD, has long been committed to quality improvement and seeking opportunities to maximizing care for post-acute and long-term care patients everywhere. So it is no surprise that Dr. Mahajan was recently selected as a 2018...
It sounds like common sense: If you’d like to reduce the risk of falls in vulnerable populations, try weaning patients off drugs that boost the risk of falls. But an analysis of the existing research has suggested the true picture may be more...
The Care Plan Checklist for Evidence of Person-Centered Approaches for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms Associated with Dementia (BPSD) is a reliable and valid tool for evaluating care plans for individuals who exhibit BPSD, according to a...
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Apathy is often the first sign of dementia, but diagnosing the condition apart from depression can be tricky, according to a presenter at the 2018 Annual Conference of AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Robin Bonifas, PhD, associate professor at the Arizona State University School of Social Work and author of Bullying Among Older Adults: How to Recognize and Address an Unseen Epidemic, talks about the roles of the social services designee or social...
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — States are currently spending 30% to 80% of their Medicaid long-term care expenditures on home- and community-based long-term care compared with institutional long-term care, which means that the long-sought “rebalancing” of long-...
Teamwork in long-term care has been studied extensively for more than 3 decades, and in health care there has been significant progress in defining team requirements. A 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report led to the development of the TeamSTEPPS...
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Wyoming-based medical director Cynthia Works, MD, CMD, came to her session at AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Annual Conference wearing her high school cheerleader uniform. It was a metaphor for her...
On May 12, 2016, Mrs. D was admitted to an acute care facility after she was found collapsed in her home, unresponsive, covered with melenic stool, and with dried blood around her mouth. She could not provide a history, and her daughter (her...
