Addiction Medicine in PALTC: Speaker to Share Guidance on Care, Respect, Dignity, Recovery
January 1, 2019
Caring for the Ages
Increasingly, post-acute and long-term care facilities are seeing patients with opioid addiction and other substance use disorders. Some of these patients are older adults — more like traditional PALTC patients — but some are younger, representing a variety of clinical needs and comorbidities. Yet all share a need for focused care to start them on the road to recovery.