The HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a new Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide , a research-based resource with step-by-step instructions and materials to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease harm...
We read with interest the article by Zahirovic et al.1 The article is informative; however, the authors’ suggestion that because the setting was a nursing home for patients with dementia, all of the elderly patients fulfilled the basic dementia...
Although geriatric syndromes have been studied extensively, their interactions with one another and their accumulated effects on life expectancy are less frequently discussed. This study examined whether geriatric syndromes and their cumulative...
There is a recent consensus proposal of “cognitive frailty” defined by the presence of both physical frailty and cognitive impairment in the absence of dementia. The relevance, validity, and utilization of cognitive frailty, however, is presently...
“All of us need to undo some long-term brainwashing that makes people think that antibiotics can do everything or that they can’t hurt. We have to help people move from thinking about antibiotics as something to use ‘just in case’ to ‘only when...
On November 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the 2017 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule that recognizes the importance of primary care by improving payment for chronic care management and behavioral health...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tracking the progress of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes by reviewing publicly reported measures. The official measure is the percentage of long-stay...
Sarcopenia, a gradual loss of muscle mass and function, has been associated with poor health outcomes. Its correlation with another age-related degenerative process, impaired cognition, remains uncertain. This meta-analysis aimed to determine...
Skeletal muscle wasting, also known as sarcopenia, has recently been identified as a serious comorbidity in patients with heart failure (HF). We aimed to assess the impact of sarcopenia on endothelial dysfunction in patients with HF with reduced...
