Pressure ulcer management calls for more than just treating the wound. Palliative care can help address pain and discomfort, and it can improve quality of life. Yet patients and practitioners alike often avoid important conversations because they...
A long recovery from disorientation following electroconvulsive therapy seems to be a sign that the therapy has effectively treated an elderly patient who has major depression, suggests a longitudinal cohort study conducted in Norway.
The traditional long-term care model is fraught with inconsistencies in the care continuum, which helped spur the nursing home negligence litigation cottage industry that has sprung up in many states. Typically, a resident would be discharged from...
Insufficient omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-6 PUFA), excess trans fat and, to a lesser extent, excess saturated fat, are significant causes of coronary heart disease, suggests a global study recently published online.
My last column (see Caring for the Ages, December 2015, “So You Give Great Care; Do You Have Data To Back That Up?”; online at www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114 (15)00433-3/fulltext) focused on the overwhelming importance of data in all...
Few adults who reported subjective memory complaints discussed such issues with a health care provider, according to results from a telephone study involving more than 10,276 people.
About one out of every five transfers from skilled nursing facilities to hospital emergency departments are potentially preventable, according to a study of root cause analysis, or RCA, a tool the researchers said can provide important insights...
