AMDA Board of Directors member, Public Policy Committee Chair, and Caring for the Ages Editor in Chief Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, was recently appointed to the National Quality Forum’s (NQF’s) Palliative and End-of-Life Care Standing Committee for the...
Advance care planning is the process by which persons can designate, in an advance directive, how intensive they would like their care to be if they become incapacitated and unable to make their own decisions. In the United States, the Patient Self-...
Join your AMDA friends and colleagues on Saturday, March 19, at 5:45 p.m. in the Convention Center’s Osceola Ballroom A for a free screening of Alive Inside, an award-winning film featuring annual conference closing keynote speaker Dan Cohen, MSW,...
Much has been written about person- or patient-centered care in health care. Google the words and you’ll get close to 4 million hits. They are the watchwords in virtually every health care venue and setting, including community long-term care. The...
Updated guidelines regarding the treatment of patients with venous thromboembolism advise abandoning the routine use of compression stockings for prevention of postthrombotic syndrome in patients who have had an acute deep vein thrombosis, according...
Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, editor-in-chief of Caring for the Ages, talks about palliative care, what it is, and how it works to improve comfort and quality of life.
SAN ANTONIO — Geriatric burn patients have a less than 50% chance of returning home with a Baux score of about 85, and the risk of death begins to climb steadily above a score of 93, approaching 50% at 110 points and almost 100% at 130 points,...
Pressure ulcer management calls for more than just treating the wound. Palliative care can help address pain and discomfort, and it can improve quality of life. Yet patients and practitioners alike often avoid important conversations because they...
A long recovery from disorientation following electroconvulsive therapy seems to be a sign that the therapy has effectively treated an elderly patient who has major depression, suggests a longitudinal cohort study conducted in Norway.
