Nursing homes have higher resident-to-staff ratios than assisted living communities, and both have more aides and licensed nurses during the day shift than overnight, a new study found.
Dear Dr. Diane: I recently listened to your PALTtalk podcast entitled “BPSD Bootcamp: What to Do in a Crisis?” ( https://bit.ly/3YkNEa2 ), and I was wondering about approaches to dementia. The son of one of my patients with Alzheimer’s disease said...
Thirty years ago, I resigned my position as a staff nurse on an inpatient psychiatric unit and moved to another state to take a nursing leadership position in a long-term care facility designed for individuals living with dementia. Dementia-specific...
I’ve been caring for patients in the LGBTQ+ community for most of my career. I’ve seen the impact that a negative interaction can have on their health care. I have a patient in his 70s whose previous health care provider had denied gender-affirming...
Activist art has always been a passion of mine, and when I stumbled upon Art Against Ageism’s Instagram account, I was immediately intrigued. Its bright red and pink logo and bold, color-filed images felt unique among many of the accounts I was...
Deprescribing is an accepted strategy for residents of skilled nursing or adult care facilities, where many patients may no longer need to be on medications that were prescribed for preventive or long-term goals. This is even more the case for...
Dr. Jones is a provider at a post-acute and long-term care facility who would like to integrate point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). She requests funding for a portable, handheld ultrasound device. The facility’s leadership and staff are not familiar...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining traction across the health care industry. AI algorithms and machine learning can help clinicians rapidly analyze large tracts of data — including medical records and drug-drug interactions — and help tailor...
Caring for the Ages is celebrating its 25th anniversary as 2024 comes to a close. For a quarter of a century, this small but mighty publication has provided clinical insights and commentary to staff in post-acute and long-term care facilities across...
