Post-acute and long-term care medicine is an interdisciplinary art, populated by passionate, creative professionals, and it is a proving ground for innovation. To recognize and promote innovation, the Society is holding its first Shark Tank...
Skilled nursing facilities that hire more registered nurses and specialize are more likely to achieve positive long-term outcomes with trauma and surgery patients, according to a retrospective study in the United States.
Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, Caring for the Ages editor in chief, talks about the importance of staying active and enjoying hobbies and fun for elders, even when they are ill or disabled.
Age is no barrier to being a member of the Innovations Platform Advisory Committee (I-PAC), as 15-year-old entrepreneur and committee member Noah Krieder aptly demonstrates. Noah is the founder of DT Cyber Solutions Tech Lessons. DT Cyber Solutions...
Since they were first developed in Oregon in the 1990s, Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm forms have become common in nursing homes, hospices, and hospitals across the United States. However, even as the use of POLST...
An ethics discussion in JAMA Internal Medicine has detailed multiple facets of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as a “last resort” option for seriously ill patients who wish to hasten their deaths.
Speed of processing training, a method of cognitive training that involves computerized exercises, is associated with a 29% reduction in dementia risk at 10 years when compared with a control group, according to a subanalysis of the Advanced...
While I was participating in an interprofessional course being taught at my university, I came across an article by Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, and Christine Sinsky, MD, that expanded on the goals of the Triple Aim — improving patient experience,...
Palliative care and geriatric care share plenty in common, but the two fields aren’t always on the same page. It’s time for a better relationship to improve patient well-being toward the end of life, palliative specialists told colleagues at the...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) actively pursues fraud not only in the housing and mortgage industries but in other industries as well — including among health care providers. The False Claims Act (FCA) allows the federal government to recover funds...
