The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce the first session of a three-part Virtual Office Hours series regarding 2016 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) quality measures. The series includes three separate...
For David LeVine, MD, CMD, Medical Director of Menorah Manor in St. Petersburg, FL, receiving AMDA’s 2016 Medical Director of the Year (MDOY) Award was a family affair. He accepted the honor at a general session during the AMDA – The Society for...
Diabetes mellitus is common in the nursing home (NH) population, yet little is known about prescribing of glucose-lowering medications in the NH setting. We describe trends in initiation of glucose-lowering medications in a national cohort of NH...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition in which an individual has minor problems with cognition that are worse than would normally be expected for a healthy person of the same age, but not severe enough to interfere with daily life. MCI has...
Determining if a transfer of a skilled nursing facility (SNF) patient/resident to an acute hospital is potentially avoidable or preventable is challenging. Most previous research on potentially avoidable or preventable hospitalizations is based on...
As the size of the old-elderly population increases, the prevalence of dementia is rapidly increasing in Japan. The prevalence of dementia is assumed to be approximately 15% and that of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is approximately 17% in...
Little is known about the effects of resistance training (RT) on circulating cytokines in older adults. Also, dose-response relationships remain unclear. This study investigated the impact of RT at different external loads on circulating...
Most studies assessing the effect of central nervous system (CNS)-acting medicines on cognitive disturbances have focused on the use of individual medicines. The impact on cognitive function when another CNS-acting medicine is added to a patient's...
The number of elderly people with cognitive impairment is expected to increase dramatically due to aging of the population. It is expected that by 2050, 115 million people worldwide will have some form of cognitive impairment, including mild...
