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Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
AMDA annual conference program chair Suzanne Gillespie, MD, RD, CMD, has many reasons that practitioners and other PALTC stakeholders should attend the conference in Orlando next month. She spotlighted five reasons and urged AMDA members and others...

From the February issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
Elderly individuals who have dementia and develop pneumonia suffer more during the 10 days following the pneumonia diagnosis and in the days before death. This is according to a prospective observational study of patients from 32 nursing homes in...

Take the Wheel: Controlling Peripheral Arterial Disease

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
David Smith, MD, CMD, a Texas-based medical director and physician, talks about managing PAD and keeping the disease from destroying quality of life.

One in Three Black Americans Will Experience PAD

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
ORLANDO — One in three black Americans and one in five whites and Hispanics will develop lower extremity peripheral arterial disease during their lifetime, according to the first-ever lifetime risk estimate calculated for this important...

Society for Vascular Surgery Calls for Caution in PAD Care

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
In response to a recent address by the American Heart Association president suggesting that peripheral arterial disease is a largely unnoticed health crisis that needs more public awareness, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) released a...

Recs for Surgeons Regarding Older Emergency Patients

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
An expert panel has developed a communication framework to improve treatment of older, seriously ill patients who have surgical emergencies, which has been published in Annals of Surgery.

Ensuring Better Transitions for Patients With Dementia

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
As clinicians know, dementia is not a specific disease but a syndrome comprising multiple etiologies, which regularly overlap. Perhaps the most insidious, destructive — and to the clinician, frustrating — form of dementia is of the “ambulance...

Detailed, Not Global, Tests Predict Alzheimer’s Progression Rates

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease who performed poorly on early cognitive tests seemed to progress more rapidly than those with less baseline impairment, a study showed. Age was also an indicator of progression, with younger patients declining at a...

Have the Conversation Early: Research Proxies in Alzheimer’s Disease

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
Many patients with Alzheimer’s disease can still identify a trusted individual to make decisions about participation in research, even when their cognitive abilities have declined to the point that they may not be able to give informed consent for...

A Matter of Trust: The Cost of HIPAA Non-Compliance

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
Health care providers protect patient information through daily actions, but failures resulting in breaches of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are increasingly costly. Initially passed into law in 2003...