There are many factors that influence a person’s ability to recover and stay healthy and safe after they leave a post-acute and long-term care facility and return home. A program at PALTC22, “Social Determinants of Health: A Practice Imperative for...
“Get out of here! Take that thing off your face! I was a nurse, I know what that thing is. I’m not going to the operating room! Where is my daughter?” Mary Knapp, RN, MSN/GNP, NHA, FAAN, director of health services at Foulkeways at Gwynedd in...
The Public Policy Update at AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Annual Conference has always been a popular and powerful program. It reflects back on what the organization and its members have accomplished, and it looks...
“You should have a bit of a system to what you’re doing” when communicating prognoses in the subacute and long-term care settings, said Nivedita Gunturi, MD, during a session entitled “Prognostication and Goals of Care: Best Practices to Assess,...
Frailty is a measure of vulnerability and a “vital sign” that is critically important to assess and track, especially with the continued growth of value-based care, said Steven Buslovich, MD, CMD, and Matthew Wayne, MD, CMD, at the 2022 Annual...
“It sounds lofty, but it’s doable if we start one step at a time,” says JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, MSN, MBA, FAAN, of a new effort by AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine aimed at developing action plans PALTC facilities can...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed the deleterious effects of social isolation on older adults in home settings and in post-acute and long-term care. Although the use of technology and telephone calls has helped buffer the impact of...
By the time many patients with severe dementia require long-term nursing care, medications such as cholinesterase inhibitors may be safely deprescribed to minimize the potential adverse events that outweigh the limited long-term benefits.
I first stepped into a nursing home when I was six years old. My mother was a certified nursing assistant who always worked 12-hour shifts. Since my father was also working, sometimes she had no choice but to have the bus drop me off at the long-...
