Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in New York City — specifically, the unique program there for the care of individuals with late-stage Huntington’s disease (HD) — has been the setting for a novel program designed to introduce fourth-year...
PALTmed’s Publications Committee is fairly new, but the group is already busy working on a variety of projects. “We’re looking at our clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and prioritizing which ones need to be revised and updated. We’re also looking...
Senior contributor Joanne Kaldy talks to Brad Goad, DO, FACP, CMD, and certified nurse assistant (CNA) Sherry Perry, and Jamie Smith, FNP-C, about a tool designed for CNAs to use to help manage care.
Lisa Dickenson was thrilled to attend the recent Olympic opening ceremony. The pageantry, the music, the athletes — “It was just incredible!” she gushed. But she wasn’t in Paris — she was in California, at the Carlsbad by the Sea retirement...
Looking at the statistics of residents residing in assisted living (AL) communities, it is not difficult to recognize that some would benefit from expanded nutrition services provided by a registered dietitian (RD). Currently, there are over 800,000...
Person-centered care, considered the gold standard when caring for older adults, requires coordinated efforts and standardized methodologies to put into practice, researchers said. In a special review, Allison R. Heid, PhD, an independent research...
A mobile integrated health program for providing transitional care after hospitalization not only is feasible but also may help frail older adults avoid rehospitalization, researchers in Massachusetts found.
When I first started working as a nurse in post-acute and long-term care in the mid-1990s, I had the pleasure of collaborating with an Episcopal priest who tended to the spiritual needs of the residents through nondenominational services, friendly...
