Age is no barrier to being a member of the Innovations Platform Advisory Committee (I-PAC), as 15-year-old entrepreneur and committee member Noah Krieder aptly demonstrates. Noah is the founder of DT Cyber Solutions Tech Lessons. DT Cyber Solutions...
Since they were first developed in Oregon in the 1990s, Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm forms have become common in nursing homes, hospices, and hospitals across the United States. However, even as the use of POLST...
An ethics discussion in JAMA Internal Medicine has detailed multiple facets of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as a “last resort” option for seriously ill patients who wish to hasten their deaths.
Speed of processing training, a method of cognitive training that involves computerized exercises, is associated with a 29% reduction in dementia risk at 10 years when compared with a control group, according to a subanalysis of the Advanced...
While I was participating in an interprofessional course being taught at my university, I came across an article by Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, and Christine Sinsky, MD, that expanded on the goals of the Triple Aim — improving patient experience,...
Palliative care and geriatric care share plenty in common, but the two fields aren’t always on the same page. It’s time for a better relationship to improve patient well-being toward the end of life, palliative specialists told colleagues at the...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) actively pursues fraud not only in the housing and mortgage industries but in other industries as well — including among health care providers. The False Claims Act (FCA) allows the federal government to recover funds...
A new study calls into question the accuracy of bipolar diagnoses in nursing home residents, since about three-quarters of residents with the diagnosis also had a previous dementia diagnosis.
Which patients are heading into dementia? Cognitive tests are one way to detect changes, but there is another that is less obvious: tests of how patients walk.
