Osteoporosis is underdiagnosed and undertreated in people living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), even though aged-care residents are at greater risk of experiencing fractures than their community-dwelling counterparts. The first (2009)...
To evaluate the scale-up of the OPUS-AP program to improve the care of residents at long-term care (LTC) centers through the systematic implementation of resident-centered approaches to care, the application of nonpharmacologic interventions for the...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “It’s easy to lose sleep about something that is going on with family members,” said Moderator Richard Juman, PsyD, at the beginning of Self-Compassion and Emotional Resilience for Working with Families. In this...
To examine facilitators of and barriers to interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in institutional long-term care (LTC) and geriatric rehabilitation (GR), and to provide an overview of instruments used to assess IPC in LTC and GR.
Homebound persons living with dementia may have increased difficulty accessing needed care in the community. This study identifies factors associated with becoming homebound among a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries with newly identified...
A third-dose COVID-19 vaccination was recommended in US long-term care settings on September 24, 2021,1 though only half of eligible nursing home residents have received a third dose as of December 5, 2021.2 On August 17, 2021, the province of...
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate for health-care workers may proceed. The CMS rule requires that all health-care personnel that enter a care setting or...
Last week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a Health Care Capsule report summarizing its extensive work on nursing homes, including assessments of the quality of care, COVID-19 response, consumer information concerns, and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Nursing Home Resource Center with two new informational products. As of January 6, CMS updated the Nursing Home Visitation FAQs to give additional guidance about visitation during...
Following the recent statement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel about therapies for the COVID-19 Omicron variant, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created HCPCS code J0248 for...
