The Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (formerly the AMDA Foundation) Futures program has always been an amalgam of participants in various career stages from all across the country. A few years ago, the program began adding nurse...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing $67 million to help U.S. health departments address antibiotic resistance and related patient safety concerns.
Renal function should be assessed in every nursing home resident, most importantly to ensure that medications will be prescribed appropriately, Milta Little, DO, CMD, said at the AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Annual Conference...
Despite achieving significant improvements in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, obese Americans continue to grow fatter, with worsening blood glucose and an increasing incidence of diabetes.
TORONTO — Hallucinations — especially auditory hallucinations — triple the risk that a risperidone-controlled Alzheimer’s patient with psychoses will relapse if the drug is withdrawn.
There has been a lot of recent media attention, and now regulatory attention, on reports of nursing home employees (usually certified nursing assistants) taking photos or videos of residents and posting them on social media or otherwise...
According to The Institute of Medicine, attributes of quality comprise care that is safe, patient-centered, timely, effective, efficient, and equitable. The 2014 Office of Inspector General report, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities:...
With a contentious presidential election approaching, tensions are high and there is much at stake on all sides of the political spectrum. Although post-acute and long-term care facilities traditionally aren’t hotbeds of political activity, they...
In a recent issue of JAMDA, Beijers and colleagues reported on the HOSPITALL score, which was developed to predict all-cause hospitalization risk in community-dwelling older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).1 Decreasing...
