Antipsychotics are widely and increasingly prescribed drugs. Initially introduced for schizophrenia, they are now used for a variety of diseases such as psychotic and affective disorders, personality and anxiety disorders. In recent years, they have...
Receiving a national award is an honor, but when that award leads to action, energy, heightened staff morale, team building, and improved quality of life, it becomes a movement. That is true of the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care...
Long-term cognitive leisure activity programs that involve dancing or playing musical instruments may help improve memory and general cognitive function, according to a three-arm, single-blind randomized controlled trial study in Japan.
PHOENIX — Recent hypertension research has provided few takeaways for the functionally impaired elderly — with the exception of the longitudinal Predictive Values of Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Institutionalized Very Aged Population (...
An increasing number of individuals infected with HIV are living longer and are expected to need long-term care. Will nursing homes be ready to accommodate them?
When I was a young boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, my father told me how he fell in love with birdwatching at an early age and would follow each new bird until he could get close enough for a good view of it. Then he’d run to the library...
