When a patient is seriously or terminally ill, it is common to focus on treatment options and possible interventions to cure the illness or at least prolong life. However, this isn’t always the focus patients want.
There is a war on opioids in this country — and on the people who prescribe them. We are in the midst of a public health crisis of addiction that has already taken the lives of many people and is straining our limited resources for first responders...
Antidepressant use was associated with an increased risk of head and brain injuries in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease in a Finnish nationwide matched cohort study.
In assessing the neuropsychiatric symptoms of patients with dementia, Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH, a professor in the division of geriatric medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said one of her main teaching points is to avoid...
The pendulum of opioid prescribing for pain management has “swung too far” in the direction of scrutiny and pressure on prescribers, and the swing is leaving physicians and other caregivers of older patients in “a true conundrum,” said Nicole J...
The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a powerful tool for implementing standardized assessment and for facilitating care management in nursing homes and non-critical access hospital swing beds (SBs). MDS 3.0 has been designed to improve the reliability,...
A cross-sectional study of the nursing staff’s role in residents’ activities in seven Dutch nursing homes shows that when staff were involved in activities of daily living (ADLs), they took over almost half the observed activities and rarely...
