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Clinical Update on Nursing Home Medicine: 2017

JAMDA
November 1, 2017
This is the 11th annual Clinical Update from the AMDA meeting article. This year the topics covered are hypertension after the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk factors, diagnosis and management...

Sleep Apnea: A Geriatric Syndrome

JAMDA
November 1, 2017
“Most of the time [President Taft] simply did not and could not function in alert fashion…Often when I was talking to him after a meal his head would fall over on his breast and he would be sound asleep for ten or fifteen minutes. He would waken and...

News From the Society

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
For Society Board of Directors State Presidents Council Representative Thomas Lehner, MD, CMD, advocating for his patients and his profession isn’t just a privilege; it’s an obligation.

Journal Highlights From the November Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and multidisciplinary support teams can reduce hospitalizations among nursing home residents, researchers found when evaluating results of the Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI), a 4-year prospective,...

Antibiotic Stewardship Emphasizes When Not to Prescribe

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Reducing antibiotic use in hospitals and nursing homes is crucial to reversing the epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections that threatens both the healthy and the ill. Now a new study has reported that a multipronged antibiotic...

Small Study Calls for Change in SNF, Medicare Hospice Benefit

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
In-hospital palliative care consultations that focused on goals of care in the context of poor prognoses did little to steer older patients away from nursing home admission under the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) benefit and from an “...

So a Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
Is there anything left to say about the role of dogs in post-acute and long-term care facilities? Yes, said Sue Halpern. In fact, she wrote a book about it. The star of A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home is Pransky, a friendly, well-trained labradoodle...

Common Sense Steps to Avoid the Flu

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
Daniel Haimowitz, MD, CMD, a multi-facility medical director in Levittown, PA, talks about how to stay well during flu season.

Update From the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
As the new Chair of the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, I am thrilled to provide some updates on the current work of the Foundation and our focus and plans for the coming years.

Literature Review Shows Options for Neuropathy in Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2017
The literature has imperfect but important messages for long-term care regarding neuropathic pain management: the long-term care population “can still benefit from careful opioid prescribing,” that nonpharmacologic therapies have a role, and that...