COPD: Opportunity to Manage Across the Long-Term Care Continuum

If you are a provider who works in a long-term care facility, in assisted living, or with community-dwelling older adults, it is likely you will encounter a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD may be of particular interest to providers who want to build a practice beyond the traditional long-term care nursing home facility, such as in assisted living, group homes, independent living, continuing care retirement communities, and with those who prefer to age in place in their homes.