MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join At a time when health-care professionals are facing unprecedented challenges, empathy is essential but sometimes hard to muster. François Beausoleil, a veteran Cirque de Soleil musician who teaches/coaches...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and her leadership team are holding a call on Tuesday, January 18, at 1:00 PM ET to acknowledge the extraordinary legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, provide...
Older adults, particularly those with declining health, have frequent hospitalizations.1 These hospitalizations can result in cognitive and functional decline2,3 and many are considered potentially avoidable with appropriate care.1 Many countries...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has forced a sudden global implementation of telemedicine strategies, including in long-term care (LTC) facilities where many people with dementia and Parkinson disease (PD) reside. Telemedicine...
Dysphagia is prevalent in older adults with dementia, particularly in the acute care setting. The objective of this study was to use an innovative approach to extract a more representative sample of patients with dysphagia from the electronic health...
We thank Dr Lisi for her interest in our article1 and we are pleased to provide some additional information and clarifications in relation to their comments.2
I commend Anrys et al1 for their attempt to develop a consensus list of potentially clinically significant drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in older people. However, there are several points that I would like to raise about this publication.
Older nursing home residents make up the population at greatest risk of morbidity and mortality from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. No studies have examined the determinants of long-term antibody responses...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened the data submission period for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians who participated in the 2021 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Data...
