With over 5.8 million individuals living with dementia, and after failures of all the recent attempts for treatment or cure, there is no better time to get back to basics in the geriatric management of dementia. As in most geriatrics care, providing...
Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and an overarching term for conditions characterized by a decline in memory or other thinking skills that impact a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. It is caused by damage to and...
Each one of us starts our culture change journey by learning, growing, and experiencing “a-ha moments” in a way that touches us personally. On my personal culture change journey, I have been fortunate enough to visit quite a few communities across...
Interventions aimed at managing agitated and aggressive behaviors in dementia without the use of antipsychotics are currently being tested in nursing homes (NHs). Researchers and clinicians require a measure that can capture the severity of...
To compare the predictive performance of 3 frailty identification tools for mortality, hospitalization, and functional decline in adults aged ≥80 years using risk reclassification statistics and decision curve analysis.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Caring for multimorbid patients comes with significant challenges and requires practitioners to successfully balance many issues and considerations at once. In a new Society webinar, Multimorbidity in Post-Acute...
There are several mechanisms for monitoring the quality of care in long-term care (LTC), including the use of quality indicators derived from resident assessments and formal inspections. The LTC inspection process is time and resource-intensive, and...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Decubiti, pressure ulcer, pressure injury, decubitus ulcer. Call it what you will, as long as the emphasis is on quality care. During an AMDA On - The - Go podcast earlier this month on this important topic,...
Case Example: Daisy Villa is a 3-star-rated skilled nursing facility (SNF) that is at the verge of losing its place in a local Accountable Care Organization (ACO) network as a result of high hospitalization rates of its short-stay patients. Through...
