Fourteen years ago this month, my first “Meditations on Geriatric Medicine” column appeared in Caring for the Ages (January 2010). It was titled, “The Power of Story,” and I wrote then that the personal stories to which we are all privy as we go...
As of January 2023, we have assumed the roles of coeditors in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. We follow in the footsteps of Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, and Philip Sloane, MD, CMD, who did an amazing job through the...
As providers in long-term care, we often face challenges at the end of a patient’s life. These challenges include medical care and also psychosocial assessments that can help the team determine what the patient needs. Some needs can be harder to...
I am excited to share an update with Caring for the Ages readers on the work that the board of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has been doing over the past six months. In addition to speaking at state/regional chapter...
Anxiety in post-acute and long-term care is experienced by residents and staff alike. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, research has reported evidence of a nationwide surge in anxiety (“Stress in America 2023: A Nation Grappling With Psychological...
“Of all forms of inequity, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” -Martin Luther King, Jr., National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Chicago, 1966
The start of the new year is a great time to collaborate with facility administrators to create realistic, achievable, and meaningful resolutions to position your facility to excel at meeting the key requirements of the medical director role in...
The concept of value-based care (VBC) isn’t new, but there is new urgency for practitioners and other stakeholders to understand what VBC is and how it impacts them and their patients. This urgency comes most significantly from a recent announcement...
Imagine this meal: braised local short rib of beef, crab cakes with pumpkin risotto and a saffron corn cream sauce, followed by a dessert of hazelnut and chocolate mousse petit fours with a Frangelico pumpkin cream sauce. You might think you could...
A growing specialty for certified nurse assistants revolves around palliative, hospice, and end-of-life care. These three concepts are related, but they also hold distinct opportunities for you to use your unique skills and abilities.
