Deprescribing is a relatively new concept in medicine and particularly important for older adults. While new recommendations for deprescribing of certain scheduled medication classes have been emerging, there is still a lack of deprescribing...
Hospital readmission and specifically 30 day readmissions have been widely used by CMS and accepted by most hospital payers as a quality indicator. A key focus in the nursing home (NH) over the last few years has been on preventing hospitalizations...
Falls are prevalent among nursing home (NH) residents, with approximately 1.5 falls per NH bed-years. Most of these falls are benign but 10-25% result in hospital admission and/or fractures. 3.3% of long term care residents nationally experienced...
Transitioning to PA or LTC can be challenging. Patients’ and families’ as well as staff and provider perceptions play a significant role in its community evaluations. Patient, family, healthcare provider and staff support is essential in...
Diabetes management comes with challenges for patients and clinicians alike and is more common in older adults, having a high prevalence in long term care (LTC) facilities. Diabetes is associated with significant disease burden, complex management...
Mexican legislation only establishes the minimum characteristics that NH/LTC must have. There are no standardized quality markers to evaluate the appropriateness of NH/LTC facilities. Thus, in Mexico, NH/LTC facilities provide elderly care in the...
The Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) Program, at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, is a nurse-led initiative dedicated to improving quality care for older adults. With over 620 member hospitals, 90 hospital-affiliated long...
Most of us, as healthcare practitioners, do most of our training in outpatient clinics and hospitals. As a result, practitioners-in-training do not know the characteristics, importance, intellectual challenges and professional satisfaction of...
Health care providers receive little training about how to work with demented patients who have lost language and processing skills. We quantified the impact of a dementia communication skills curriculum on health professions students' attitudes and...
Medical schools have utilized a number of different curricular models to teach geriatric medicine. One model is the Senior Mentoring Program (SMP) in which volunteer seniors are paired with medical students to facilitate teaching of geriatric...
