Increasingly, post-acute and long-term care facilities are seeing patients with opioid addiction and other substance use disorders. Some of these patients are older adults — more like traditional PALTC patients — but some are younger, representing a...
Health care is a difficult business. The demands are greater on staff, particularly in long-term care and assisted living. The residents are medically complex, as are their care needs. Documentation has become cumbersome, even with an electronic...
Brief screening scales for caregiver burden are much needed in routine dementia services to efficiently identify caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) for further intervention. Although the 22-item Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) is often used, its...
This article reports findings on the usability and staff use of 5 condition- specific pamphlets of high prevalence in long-term care (LTC): dementia, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal failure, and frailty. The pamphlets...
Orthostatic hypotension is a potential risk factor for falls in older adults, but existing evidence on this relationship is inconclusive. This study addresses the association between orthostatic hypotension and falls.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Suzanne Gillespie, MD, RD, CMD, is in her third year as Society House of Delegates (HoD) chair, but she is still humbled when she stands at the podium and looks out at her family of peers. Then she takes a deep...
On June 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published Program Year 2017 Open Payments data, along with updated and newly submitted data from previous program years (2013-2016). Physicians and teaching hospitals: This data is...
The final performance period for the Value Modifier and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) programs was 2016 and the final payment adjustment year is 2018. Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) and PQRS Feedback Reports will no longer be...
Deprescribing is effective in addressing concerns relating to polypharmacy in residents of nursing homes. However, the clinical outcomes of deprescribing interventions among residents in nursing homes are not well understood. We evaluated the impact...
Nursing facilities have lagged behind in the adoption of interoperable health information technology (ie technologies that allow the sharing and use of electronic patient information between different information systems). The objective of this...
