Whether facility-based or community-based, traditional primary care practices are not optimally designed to support the complex needs of older adults. Traditional practices tend to prioritize episodic, acute care over longitudinal chronic illness...
ORLANDO, FL — “The hospital is not a good place for patients with dementia,” said Kenneth Donovan, MD, medical director, hospitalist service, Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, New London, CT. Speaking at a session during the Society’s annual...
ORLANDO, FL — Barney Spivack, MD, CMD, national medical director, Medicare case and condition management for Optum, spoke about the revised COPD clinical practice guideline during a session at AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care...
MADRID — In a surprising finding, antidepressant use during the 3 years preceding diagnosis of dementia was linked with a significantly reduced mortality risk, Daniela Enache, MD, reported at the European Congress of Psychiatry.
What a great annual meeting we had in Orlando! Caring’s print coverage of the meeting will start in earnest next month, but I couldn’t wait to share my excitement about this year’s meeting. Like many of us, I find the best part of the meeting is...
ORLANDO, FL — Outgoing AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine President Naushira Pandya, MD, CMD, gave her final presentation in that role at the Society’s annual conference on Friday, March 18, during the General Session.
Late last year, staff at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston admitted a 95-year-old man in a wheelchair onto one of their long-term care floors. The resident had heart disease, dysphagia, and other comorbidities. “He was very frail, very weak...
To estimate prevalence of sarcopenia and dynapenia in outpatients with Parkinson disease (PD) and to investigate their association with the features of the disease.
