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My Two-Minute Drill (Lapels and All)

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.— E.M. Forster, Howard’s End (1910)

Phishing Is No Fun: Staying Safe in the Digital Age

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
Aaron Poppas, infrastructure security engineer at GPM Corporation, talks about how you can protect your personal information and help thwart cybercriminals.

Collaborating With NPs and PAs: Best Practices for Comanagement of Patient Care

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
The increasing shortage of physicians combined with an increasing aging population requiring care has led to comanagement as a viable patient care model. Comanagement is defined as a physician and either a physician’s assistant (PA) or a nurse...

Lost Transitions

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
Dear Dr. Jeff: The major referral hospital for our skilled nursing facility is a highly rated academic medical center. Nevertheless, they repeatedly transfer to us medically complex patients who may be unstable, typically with minimal, inaccurate,...

Supporting the Medical Director: An Opportunity for Physicians, NPs, and PAs

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
I remember a key turning point in my career in post-acute and long-term care. The new medical director at the facility where I had been working for several years began to give me recommendations on the impact of my care. Before that, I had barely...

Tapering Recommendations for Benzodiazepines

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
Amid the opioid crisis in the United States, another class of psychoactive medications — benzodiazepines — is often used inapropriately and should be considered for deprescribing. In tapering these medications, safe practices must be adopted and...

The Updated OBRA Regulations: New or Forgotten?

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
Marie Antoinette allegedly once declared, “There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” Often, in all aspects of life, we try to reinvent the wheel because we have either forgotten, never really knew, or do not consistently apply enduring...

A Labor of Love

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
In recent weeks I have been involved in a labor of love. I have a treasure trove of more than 400 letters written by my father to his mother during his service in World War II, and I have been transcribing them. This has been an experience like none...

Dementia Care and Population Health: A Paradigm Shift

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
Population health has been around for decades, but it is now taking center stage in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia care. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are encouraging and empowering these efforts with a Public Health...

Caring Pays Tribute to Mike the Dog

Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2020
“Visiting nursing homes and spending time with residents was his lot in life,” said David Smith, MD, CMD, of his dog Mike. The yellow Labrador retriever was a mainstay at Dr. Smith’s nursing homes for years, and he even attended a conference of AMDA...