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Clean Out the Medicine Cabinet!

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), medication reconciliation is defined as the process of identifying the most accurate list of all medications that a patient is taking, including name, dosage, frequency, and route...

Shark Tank Finalists Swim With the Big Fish

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
You have to be a little crazy to be an innovator, according to Jim Stefansic, PhD, MBA, president and CEO of Raiven Healthcare. “You have to believe from day one that you will succeed. Then you have to stay the course,” he said. And he should know:...

News From the Society

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Your professional family is waiting for you in Atlanta—as are innovative ideas, best practices, and answers to the questions that keep you awake at night. There’s still time to register for the Society’s 2019 annual conference, March 7-10.

Medical Directors: Why Do You Abdicate Your Advocacy With Nursing Homes?

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Nursing home medical directors are in short supply, and there is great demand for their services. The age-old law of supply and demand places physicians in a position of strength when they are negotiating medical director relationships with the...

When Antibiotics Aren’t the Answer

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Kenneth Brubaker, MD, CMD, a Pennsylvania-based medical director, talks about why positive urine tests don’t necessarily mean someone has a urinary tract infection and needs antibiotics.

Black Patients With Mental Health Conditions More Likely Than Whites to End Up in Nursing Homes

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Older patients with mental health conditions were more likely to be admitted to nursing homes upon hospital discharge than older patients without mental health diagnoses, and black patients with mental health conditions had higher odds of nursing...

Journal Highlights From the February Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Residents in post-acute and long-term care facilities experience twice the rate of admission to intensive care units due to sepsis, a longer hospital stay, and more than twice the mortality than non-nursing home residents, but these outcomes may be...

Ensuring a Legacy

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
My satisfying work as a volunteer with the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine (Our Foundation) gives me a chance to do things at this stage of my career—admittedly a later stage—that I don’t get to do in my many other...

The Long Journey of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Research

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
Post-acute and long-term care research has come a long way; and it’s getting more attention as the aging population grows. Increasingly, payors, policy makers, providers, and even consumers want to know about innovative care management and the best...

Extinguishing the Fire of Burnout With Targeted, Innovative Solutions

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2019
According to the National Academy of Medicine, more than half of U.S. physicians experience substantial symptoms of burnout. “Burnout is an increasingly recognized phenomenon in the health care workplace, and current research suggests high rates of...