MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join During this past 14 months, Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, has worked tirelessly to protect post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents, interdisciplinary teams, and colleagues around the world as COVID-19 spread...
To determine the factors associated with the potentially inappropriate transfer of nursing home (NH) residents to emergency departments (EDs) and to compare hospitalization costs before and after transfer of individuals addressed inappropriately vs...
In November 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for bamlanivimab, a monoclonal antibody (mAb), for treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in nonhospitalized individuals at high risk for severe...
Interindividual response variability to nutrition and exercise interventions is extensive in older adults. A group of nursing home (NH) residents participated in a combined intervention. The objective of this post-hoc analysis was to identify...
Anxiety and depression are major psychiatric nonmotor symptoms (NMSs) of Parkinson disease (PD). Although several studies have investigated the effects of psychotherapeutic interventions, particularly cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), for...
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) place a heavy burden on patients as well as caregivers. Recently, pain was identified as an important determinant of BPSD. However, it is not yet known what influence sex has on BPSD and pain...
Storytelling is powerful, and on April 7, over 1,000 certified nursing assistants (CNAs) brought their stories to Washington, DC, for a virtual march organized by the National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA). “Now is our time. We have...
When Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD, set out to develop AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s tool kit The Younger Adult in the Long-Term Care Setting ( https://bit.ly/3tS7hUM ) almost 10 years ago, she and her coauthors...
Dear Dr. Jeff: Recently our facility had a patient who complained of abdominal pain and vomiting. She was sent to the emergency department where she received a Fleet enema and was returned with a diagnosis of “fecal impaction.” The family complained...
