AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine announced the formation of a Practice Management Section at its 40th Annual Conference in Phoenix. This mechanism for expansion of the organization’s membership base sets the stage for...
QAPI is the coordinated application of two mutually reinforcing aspects of a quality management system: Quality Assurance (QA) and Performance Improvement (PI). QAPI takes a systematic, comprehensive, and data-driven approach to maintaining and...
Nurses who completed an online training course in antimicrobial stewardship showed increased knowledge about infections in long-term care residents and understanding of the nursing staff’s role in infection control, a small study has found.
As a card-carrying baby boomer, the dawn of the global economy has been difficult for me to conceptualize. This includes a bias that care transitions are an American issue. But as the younger generation might reply, “Guess again!”
Every day we make individualized treatment decisions with patients and their families in the skilled nursing facility. All too often, however, these decisions are not informed by evidence. Much of the evidence base for treatment of common medical...
Reducing pain in nursing home residents with dementia was found to reduce staff distress, particularly when the patients displayed agitation-related symptoms and apathy, a Norwegian study has shown.
Researchers studying the Preventing Aggression in Veterans with Dementia (PAVeD) program ultimately concluded that the intervention was not successful in reducing the incidence of aggression among veterans with chronic pain and dementia, but have...
Back in junior high school, I read Erich Segal’s short, tragic romance novel Love Story, about two Harvard undergraduates from different sides of the tracks. Its tagline was spoken first in the film version by Jenny (played by the beautiful Ali...
With more focus on the concept of person-centered care, skilled nursing facilities are exploring ways to make their residents feel more at home. One way some facilities are doing this is by renovating existing structures and interiors to create a...
