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Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) replaces current value-based performance reporting and establishes a new Quality Payment Program (QPP). QPP essentially creates two pathways forward: the Merit Based Incentive Payment...
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
Attending chamber music concerts was associated with decreased pain, better mood, and increased energy in older adults residing in long-term care or other assisted living facilities, according to results from a recent study.
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
Historically, the coordination of care for a patient’s disposition in the health care continuum has focused on the transition from the hospital back to the home or to a post-acute care facility. Little emphasis has been placed on the transition from...
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
NEW ORLEANS — The cardiovascular safety profile of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) celecoxib, a selective inhibitor of COX-2, is no worse than those of the nonselective NSAIDs naproxen and ibuprofen, according to a trial reported at...
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration has banned powdered gloves for use in health care settings, citing “numerous risks to patients and health care workers.” The ban extends to gloves currently in commercial distribution and in the hands of the ultimate...
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
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Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
Reminiscence interventions have been studied for decades, with some evidence of benefit for cognition, mental health, and overall well-being in older adults. But should structured reminiscence programs have a place in long-term care facilities and...
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
The oft-quoted sports motto, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” often misattributed to Vince Lombardi, was actually first propounded in a slightly different form by Red Sanders, UCLA’s football coach, in 1950 in a physical education...
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it led scientist, researcher, author, and speaker Marc Milstein, PhD, to some important discoveries, and in many ways it guides his career on a daily basis. Coming from a cellular/molecular biology background,...
Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2017
Jodi Dobslaw, CRNP, is making rounds in the memory care unit at Masonic Villages in Elizabethtown, PA. Her easy compassion and rapport with the residents mirror those of her colleague and facility medical director J. Kenneth Brubaker, MD, CMD, and...