To determine the proportion of older people moving to care homes with a recent stroke, incidence of stroke after moving to a care home, mortality following stroke, and secondary stroke prevention management in older care home residents.
We examined the construct validity of 2 self-reported frailty questionnaires, the Frailty Phenotype Questionnaire (FPQ) and FRAIL, against the Cardiovascular Health Study frailty phenotype (CHS-FP).
In 1976 when I completed my residency training in internal medicine, I knew for certain what I wanted to do. And I proceeded in my youthful and admittedly naïve way to accomplish my dream.
Even if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services didn’t have a monthly medication regimen review (MRR) requirement for residents of skilled nursing facilities, having a periodic review of each resident’s medications in a focused, methodical...
Tess Bird, DPhil, managing editor of Caring for the Ages and medical anthropologist, talks about the many benefits of sharing and documenting your loved one’s stories.
The 2022 Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine featured the annual Year in Review session: a discussion of 12 articles published in the past year that three presenters determined to be important for post-...
Physicians and advanced practitioners who primarily practice in nursing homes are perceived by other physicians as providing higher quality care than other physicians for residents, according to a new study.
Should a medication error result in a criminal prosecution and imprisonment? Let’s explore the nuances of this ethically complex intersection of law and medicine.
“Here come the baby boomers, so I think you expect a sexual revolution in nursing homes,” said Jim Wright, MD, PhD, CMD, medical director at Westminster Canterbury Richmond in Virginia, at the start of “Intimacy and Dementia in the Long-Term Care...
