MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join In early March, Society President Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD, will head to Atlanta, GA, for the 2019 annual conference . She would happily make the trip even without the title, and it all goes back to the vivid...
The notion of fear of falling (FOF), originally named “ptophobia”1 and presented for the first time in 1982, is defined as an association of psychobehavioral symptoms such as anxiety and fear of recurrent falling leading to an inability to walk...
Long-term care (LTC) homes expressed concern that patients had experienced medication incidents after hospital discharge as a result of poor coordination of care.
In 2013, the New York Times published an article titled “In Nursing Homes, an Epidemic of Poor Dental Hygiene”—perhaps for the first time awakening public awareness to the importance and insufficiency of oral hygiene among residents in US nursing...
A few years back, I was part of research team collecting data in a nursing home from residents, staff, and family members for a study about end-of-life care. Most of the residents in the study were older adults in the late stages of advanced chronic...
