A staggering 7.5 million older adults were hospitalized in 2017 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018, http://bit.ly/39Zycoc; Administration for Community Living, 2017, http://bit.ly/3a1zijp ), including 1.5 million of the oldest old...
In last month’s column I addressed the concept of stewardship. I applied this concept to the emotions of my father and his fellow pilot cadets in World War II, which I found in dad’s letters home during the war. The word “stewardship” is defined in...
Point-of-care chest ultrasound may represent a valid bedside diagnostic aid when caring for older individuals with an acute respiratory disease, according to a study conducted in Italy.
The immediate past president and the executive director of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine sum up recent accomplishments and initiatives in progress and share plans for the future. 3
The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), as we all know by now, is the new reimbursement system model that Medicare is currently using to determine payments for skilled nursing facilities, which started on October 1, 2019. PDPM replaces the previous...
I entered medical school in 1969. Through a quirk of fate, I found myself part of an experimental program in medical education, the “Clinical Program,” as it was called. It was an off-the-wall endeavor, but I was forged by it. From my first day of...
For the first several decades of my practice in post-acute and long-term care, it was a constant battle to get information or cooperation from our local hospitals. For all the wonderful, life-saving treatments they provided to our mutual patients,...
Medical directors play an essential role in the care that residents receive in the post-acute and long-term care arena. They wear many hats, ranging from thought leader and role model to clinical resource and educator. In particular, medical...
