Innovative Assistive Health Technology (AHT) has the potential to improve the quality of life for people with dementia or their families. Although development is in its preliminary stages, research shows first promising results. Despite such...
Existing studies have indicated that caring for a person with disabilities in a family could result in strong adverse impacts on the health of his or her spouse. However, little is known about the potential joint burden and interactive patterns in a...
For the next several months, Caring for the Ages will feature a profile of a different AMDA committee. As a volunteer-driven organization, AMDA depends on and is indebted to those individuals who devote their time, talents, and energies to AMDA...
Transitional care interventions for patients discharged from skilled nursing facilities that are delayed even by a few days are unlikely to help lower rates of rehospitalization and adverse drug events, a pilot study conducted within a 265-physician...
There is finally some clarity about how to report and return Medicare overpayments, under a final rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Retail prices for medications most commonly used by Medicare patients rose almost 10% in 2013 — more than six times faster than the rate of inflation, according to an analysis by the AARP Public Policy Institute.
