LOS ANGELES — More than a third of people in the United States older than 65 are estimated to be obese, and the percentage may be higher than 40% among those 65 to 74. These numbers could translate to millions of seniors who will need bariatric care...
PHOENIX — Addressing end-of-life issues with patients and families is never easy for physicians. However, they have a whole team of professionals who can offer support and assistance and make end-of-life planning more effective and less stressful...
PHOENIX — A fall off a bike had a devastating impact on the life of one man, but it revealed much about how the brain works. In his closing keynote presentation at AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Annual Conference,...
Multiple immunizations are recommended for older adults, as are annual flu vaccines. Specifically, these include two pneumonia vaccines: PPSV23, the 23-valent vaccine containing pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide, and pneumococcal conjugate...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the fiscal year 2018 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System final rule, which updates 2018 Medicare payment and policies when...
One thing all of us share — whether we are practitioners or patients, presidents or prisoners — is the need for sleep. A good night’s sleep is a blessing, and a bad night’s sleep is a curse. Although the term “la petite mort” (the little death) is...
A new recombinant adjuvanted herpes zoster vaccine awaiting potential approval from the Food and Drug Administration has been shown to have close to 90% efficacy at 4 years among research participants older than 70 and even those older than 80.
PHOENIX — John E. Morley, MB, BCh, likes the challenge of foreseeing the future of long-term care. In his opening editorial of his last year as editor of JAMDA — and in a subsequent interview with Caring for the Ages — he took on the challenge again...
If the federal government’s Healthy People 2020 goals are met, at least 90% of patients and residents in post-acute and long-term care facilities will be immunized against influenza and pneumococcal infection.
