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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Editor’s note: The new content on this page, Expert Perspective, underscores the lasting relevance of the issue discussed in this previously published column.
I’m dedicating this column to my frail geriatric canine, Tessa. I’ve taken dogs on nursing home rounds with me now for almost 25 years, and it never gets old. The joy they bring to my residents is palpable and undeniable, and it brightens up my day...
