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Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
Staff training can lead to improved oral hygiene and denture care among nursing home residents, a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found.
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
Several years ago, Caring for the Ages introduced this column to help encourage the best possible communication between practitioners and patients/families in post-acute and long-term care on a wide range of topics. We gathered a prestigious group...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
In an exclusive interview with Caring for the Ages, Jasen Gundersen, MD, MBA, president of TeamHealth’s Hospitalist and Post-Acute Care service lines, spoke with Ian Cordes, a member of Caring’s Editorial Advisory Board, about the increasing role of...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
Whether you are interested in education and continuing medical education credits, webinars and other online programming, the latest research, podcasts featuring national experts, or you just want to connect with like-minded colleagues, Society...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
The work we do — geriatrics and long-term care — always ranks high in job satisfaction when polls are taken. And yet ask any doctor you know, and he or she will tell you about one or two or four or more medical friends and colleagues who offed...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
Cathleen Dacey often participates in morning yoga and stretching programs at the assisted living facility where she lives. She is the youngest participant, but not just by a few years — Ms. Dacey is in her 20s. She is attending the law school at...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
In addition to improving communication ability, a 12-week music intervention relieved apathy among older residents with dementia in a nursing facility in the People’s Republic of China. By comparison, the control group demonstrated similar or...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
It’s 2 a.m. and the buzzing of a bed alarm signals that Mrs. Jones is getting up to go to the bathroom. Now alerted, staff can assist her and keep her safe. That is the ideal that makes bed and chair alarms part of many facilities’ fallprevention...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
Mrs. H and her husband are residents at a skilled nursing facility. They are elderly and have extensive gait instability, but are cognitively intact. Mr. H is rehabilitating after a compression fracture of the thoracic spine. They are both receiving...
Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2018
Many of Caring’s readers will recall the November, 2017 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine (2017;377:2192–2193) that recounted the case of an unidentified 70-year-old man who presented, unconscious and very ill, to an emergency department...