Socializing with family and friends is essential for older adults in long-term care because it significantly reduces the depression and anxiety that may come from isolation and loneliness. Unfortunately, today socializing may also bring COVID-19...
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the responsibilities of health care professionals practicing in long-term care settings have expanded dramatically, with self-care becoming an essential skill. Many, however, have found themselves unprepared...
David A. Nace, MD, MPH, CMD, president of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, is representing the Society on the administration’s new Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes. The Commission was created to...
Post-acute and long-term care facilities have learned more about how to respond to outbreaks of COVID-19, as well as the consequences of ineffective responses or none at all. COVID-19 also “has exposed how fundamentally broken our approach to...
Editor’s note: This column was inspired by a real case, and the responses of the team members have been written by the editors of the column as an example of how the interdisciplinary team (IDT) can contribute to comprehensive, person-centered care.
Physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs) often face ethical challenges while facilitating transitions of care, especially when the transitions appear unsafe for the patient. Two particularly challenging scenarios are...
Dear Dr. Jeff: Our facility is being severely criticized by families for not sharing with them information about the status of the novel coronavirus among the residents of our building and among our staff. This seems to go across the board from...
As the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold and the death rate begins to take shape with accurate reporting and more frequent testing, David Grabowski, Ph.D., a researcher at Harvard Medical School’s Health Care Policy Department...
