Nonpharmacologic interventions have been shown to be relatively effective in reducing agitation and improving the quality of life of patients with dementia.1,2 Programs/interventions that have been employed in many long-term care facilities include...
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be classified into groups A/C or B/D based on symptom intensity. Different threshold values for symptom questionnaires can result in misclassification and, in turn, different treatment...
Results from a study by The Joint Commission found that some facilities had quality measure scores for residents of different races and ethnicities that differed by as much as 30 percentage points, although newer data demonstrated a similar quality...
Many of us carry around activity trackers in our purses and pockets. Step by step, mile by mile, our smartphones track where we go and how long it takes us to get there. Now researchers are putting global positioning system (GPS) technology to work...
The 2018 Annual Conference, scheduled for March 22-25, will include education on timely clinical topics such as decreasing antipsychotic use, antibiotic stewardship, wound management, regulatory issues such as billing and coding, and the popular...
Antidepressants are often underprescribed in blacks, placing them at greater risk for mortality, according to a longitudinal cohort study in metropolitan St. Louis.
National efforts to improve the use of antibiotics include changes made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services to the Requirements of Participation for Long-Term Care Facilities, which require an antibiotic stewardship program “that...
David Smith, MD, CMD, multi-facility medical director and past president of AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, talks about post-traumatic stress disorder in the elderly.
