Renal function should be assessed in every nursing home resident, most importantly to ensure that medications will be prescribed appropriately, Milta Little, DO, CMD, said at the AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Annual Conference...
Despite achieving significant improvements in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, obese Americans continue to grow fatter, with worsening blood glucose and an increasing incidence of diabetes.
TORONTO — Hallucinations — especially auditory hallucinations — triple the risk that a risperidone-controlled Alzheimer’s patient with psychoses will relapse if the drug is withdrawn.
There has been a lot of recent media attention, and now regulatory attention, on reports of nursing home employees (usually certified nursing assistants) taking photos or videos of residents and posting them on social media or otherwise...
According to The Institute of Medicine, attributes of quality comprise care that is safe, patient-centered, timely, effective, efficient, and equitable. The 2014 Office of Inspector General report, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities:...
With a contentious presidential election approaching, tensions are high and there is much at stake on all sides of the political spectrum. Although post-acute and long-term care facilities traditionally aren’t hotbeds of political activity, they...
In a recent issue of JAMDA, Beijers and colleagues reported on the HOSPITALL score, which was developed to predict all-cause hospitalization risk in community-dwelling older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).1 Decreasing...
Frailty is an important geriatric syndrome with a global prevalence of 4.9%-27.3%.1 It is defined as an age-related decrease in the physiological reserve needed to maintain biological homeostasis and increased vulnerability to stressors. Recognition...
The fall risk assessment tool (FRAT-up) is a tool for predicting falls in community-dwelling older people based on a meta-analysis of fall risk factors. Based on the fall risk factor profile, this tool calculates the individual risk of falling over...
The aim of this study was to identify the clinical efficacy of acupuncture in combination with RehaCom cognitive training in poststroke patients with cognitive dysfunction.
