The frontier of palliative care is outside of hospitals and hospice, said Diane Meier, MD, FACP, director of the national Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and Anne-Marie Filkin lecturer at AMDA’s 2016 annual conference in Orlando, FL...
Approximately 25% of persons admitted to a skilled nursing facility are re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days at an annual cost of $4.3 billion.1 Besides the financial burden, hospital transfers can lead to substantial morbidity such as...
Frailty is described as a clinical state of increased vulnerability to stressors because of homoeostatic impairment and is associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes.1 The best known operationalizations of frailty are the deficit...
Incontinence associated dermatitis (IAD) is a known risk factor for pressure ulcer development. In skilled nursing facilities, >50% of residents are incontinent of either urine or stool.
The hypothesis is that residents in long-term care (LTC) facilities can be treated for early signs of sepsis using early warning signs detection skills. Early treatment will prevent the resident from being transported to an acute care facility.
Pain in advanced dementia is a common problem. This study investigates (1) the prevalence of pain in different dementia subtypes and dementia stages and (2) the prevalence and type of analgesic treatment.
