Communication is a good thing—critiques of Twitter and other forms of social media notwithstanding. In health care, high-quality physician-patient communication benefits patients' emotional health, symptoms, function, physiology, and pain.1 In...
Four key articles published in 2018 have been selected to represent clinical situations where recent evidence may prompt changes in practice relevant to the nursing home population. There is no evidence of benefit for levothyroxine replacement in...
The modern long-term care system is facing a growing demand for better tailored and more responsive care; choice and flexibility of care users has become one of major goals of the system. There is a trend that public-funded long-term care systems in...
Approximately 7.7% of patients with dementia in Long-Term Care (LTC) who are agitated are prescribed psychotropics medications, which can lead to well-known adverse effects. Music intervention can be used to help improve health and alleviate...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) Program provides in-home interdisciplinary, comprehensive, longitudinal primary care for frail, chronically ill, or disabled veterans with complex medical, social, and...
Aging adults in the United States are living longer with health conditions. Examining the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for commonly seen health conditions in aging adults may help to inform healthcare providers and their patients, guide...
Constipation is a commonly prevalent condition and often a distressing digestive complaint. Left untreated, it may be associated with severe morbidity and occasionally in mortality. To determine 1) the correlation between patient’s complain of...
