The Society Membership Committee and its chair, Rajeev Kumar, MD, CMD, had an epiphany about how to bring new people into the organization. “Our members are our biggest advocates,” said Dr. Kumar. “So who is better than them to recruit their...
For patients who have experienced a hip fracture, use of a bisphosphonate can decrease the risk of a subsequent one, according to a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Sweden.
Nursing home residents — especially those with dementia — who had do-not-hospitalize orders had significantly fewer hospital admissions, a cross-sectional analysis of nursing home residents has shown.
After a review of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of the connections between atrial fibrillation (AF) and type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers led by Anna Plitt, MD, of Mount Sinai Hospital, has concluded that many high-risk patients with...
A goals of care (GOC) intervention designed to improve the quality of communication and palliative care for long-stay nursing home residents with advanced dementia proved effective in a randomized clinical trial of 302 dyads of residents and their...
In 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a booklet, intended for institutions across the continuum, called “Discharge Planning” ( http://go.cms.gov/1k6GvDN ). The booklet proposed that one of the “musts” for implementation...
The world of long-term care medicine changed, quietly, on the afternoon of March 18, 2017. That was the day the first functioning long-term care accountable care organization (ACO) was described in public.
When actress Carrie Fisher passed away, many family members and friends expressed sadness but not surprise when her mother, entertainment icon Debbie Reynolds, died a day later. They talked about the closeness of the mother–daughter bond and the...
PHOENIX — Research defining the central nervous system (CNS) medication burden that is associated with an increased risk of serious falls in nursing home residents won the Howard Guterman Best Poster Award at the AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute...
