Communication is a good thing—critiques of Twitter and other forms of social media notwithstanding. In health care, high-quality physician-patient communication benefits patients' emotional health, symptoms, function, physiology, and pain.1 In...
Four key articles published in 2018 have been selected to represent clinical situations where recent evidence may prompt changes in practice relevant to the nursing home population. There is no evidence of benefit for levothyroxine replacement in...
The modern long-term care system is facing a growing demand for better tailored and more responsive care; choice and flexibility of care users has become one of major goals of the system. There is a trend that public-funded long-term care systems in...
Approximately 7.7% of patients with dementia in Long-Term Care (LTC) who are agitated are prescribed psychotropics medications, which can lead to well-known adverse effects. Music intervention can be used to help improve health and alleviate...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) Program provides in-home interdisciplinary, comprehensive, longitudinal primary care for frail, chronically ill, or disabled veterans with complex medical, social, and...
Aging adults in the United States are living longer with health conditions. Examining the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for commonly seen health conditions in aging adults may help to inform healthcare providers and their patients, guide...
Constipation is a commonly prevalent condition and often a distressing digestive complaint. Left untreated, it may be associated with severe morbidity and occasionally in mortality. To determine 1) the correlation between patient’s complain of...
Falls in long-term care (LTC) facilities are a major safety and quality concern, and are considered a preventable cause of injury. The majority of falls occur among residents with moderate to severe dementia. A cascade of repeated falls, with or...
Post-acute care represents important rehabilitation and recuperation services delivered to Medicare beneficiaries after an acute care hospital stay. Of particular interest within the cohort of post-acute users are the frail older adult and other...
National trends indicate an increase in the amount and complexity of healthcare delivery in nursing homes (NH). As this care is provided in relatively limited resource settings, there is concern about the role NH play in the rise of antimicrobial...
