In the Netherlands, the use of continuous deep sedation at the end of life has sharply increased from 8.2% of all deaths in 2005 to 12.3% in 2010 to 18.3 % in 2015. We describe its clinical characteristics in 2015 and compare it with 2010 and 2005.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Anyone who has met Charles Crecelius, MD, PhD, CMD, or had the opportunity to see him speak very likely has laughed as well as learned. That unique ability to simultaneously educate, enlighten, and entertain is...
Last week representatives from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified publicly to the Senate Special Committee on Aging about their Improved Oversight Needed to Better Protect Residents from Abuse report. The report noted that “while...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tracking the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes by reviewing publicly reported measures. The official measure of the Partnership is the percentage...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Physician Compare support team are hosting two one-hour webinars on the 2017 Quality Payment Program performance information recently published on Physician Compare . The webinars will...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released three new case studies describing innovative programs from Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The case studies feature ACO initiatives related to: Promoting staff...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join For years, there have been discussions about the role of advanced practice providers (APPs) in health care, including post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). While there is consensus that these practitioners—...
Fear of falling (FOF) is common in older adults. We investigated whether FOF affects development of cognitive decline over a 3-year period in community-dwelling older adults with intact cognition.
Abundant research shows that linguistic barriers can have a negative impact on access to and quality of health care, as well as a patient's health outcomes.1–3 Establishing a culturally appropriate environment, by providing care to nursing home...
