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Do-Not-Hospitalize Orders Help Reduce Hospital, ED Transfers

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
Nursing home residents — especially those with dementia — who had do-not-hospitalize orders had significantly fewer hospital admissions, a cross-sectional analysis of nursing home residents has shown.

Red Pills, White Pills, Blue Pills, Right Pills

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
Caring Editorial Board member Jeanne Manzi, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, discusses the importance of adhering with medication prescriptions.

Atrial Fibrillation Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Benefit From Non–Vitamin K Oral Anticoagulants

Caring for the Ages
Anticoagulants
June 1, 2017
After a review of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of the connections between atrial fibrillation (AF) and type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers led by Anna Plitt, MD, of Mount Sinai Hospital, has concluded that many high-risk patients with...

Care Intervention Plan Improves Communication, Palliative Care for Residents With Advanced Dementia

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
A goals of care (GOC) intervention designed to improve the quality of communication and palliative care for long-stay nursing home residents with advanced dementia proved effective in a randomized clinical trial of 302 dyads of residents and their...

Time for a Consistent and Seamless Transition of Care

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
In 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a booklet, intended for institutions across the continuum, called “Discharge Planning” ( http://go.cms.gov/1k6GvDN ). The booklet proposed that one of the “musts” for implementation...

First Long-Term Care Accountable Care Organization Unveiled at Society Meeting

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
The world of long-term care medicine changed, quietly, on the afternoon of March 18, 2017. That was the day the first functioning long-term care accountable care organization (ACO) was described in public.

Elders Need Special Attention When Adult Children Die

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
When actress Carrie Fisher passed away, many family members and friends expressed sadness but not surprise when her mother, entertainment icon Debbie Reynolds, died a day later. They talked about the closeness of the mother–daughter bond and the...

Guterman Award Winner: CMS Medication Burden Linked to Serious Falls

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
PHOENIX — Research defining the central nervous system (CNS) medication burden that is associated with an increased risk of serious falls in nursing home residents won the Howard Guterman Best Poster Award at the AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute...

White Embraces Leadership Role as New Society President

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
PHOENIX — Heidi White, MD, CMD, associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and a senior fellow in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, has been on the stage at AMDA –...

Humanism: A Foundation for Caring Conversations

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2017
PHOENIX — A common complaint from health care providers, team members, and patients is the difficulty in establishing real human connections among them. When health care is doled out in 15-minute increments and the provider spends more time entering...