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It’s Personal: On Gaining an Inclusive Consciousness and Becoming an Ally

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
In retirement (after I caught up on sleep) my brain was ready for some non-medical activation, so I joined my college’s online book club. The first book we read was Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020)...

Promoting Nursing Home Success: A Business Model Supporting Frontline Staff Retention and Resident Outcomes

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Since the pandemic, employment stabilization has been an ongoing issue. Post-acute and long-term care communities, including skilled nursing facilities, are lagging behind other fields in returning to pre-COVID staffing levels (I. Telesford et al...

Futures Fellows at PALTC24

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Participants at this years Futures Program at PALTC24 enjoyed a stimulating program full of talks, career coaching, and networking. Our managing editor stopped in to take a few photos of their experience.

Can Adequate Nutrition Aid in the Prevention and Treatment of Frailty in Older Adults?

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
With older adults experiencing longer life expectancies, one of the goals of healthy aging is to prevent frailty to maintain independence. Frailty is defined as “a clinically recognizable state of increased vulnerability resulting from aging-...

Potentially Avoidable Transfers

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
More than eight out of 10 transfers of nursing home residents to emergency departments (EDs) can possibly be avoided, researchers in France found.

Racial and Ethnic Conflict Is Common in Resident-to-Resident Aggression

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
An estimated one in five nursing home residents are involved in resident-to-resident aggression, including physical, sexual, or verbal interactions. One contributor to such aggression is overt racial and ethnic conflicts, according to a new study in...

Advocating for an Aging Relative During a Skilled Nursing Facility Stay: Managing Opportunities and Challenges

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Approximately 20% of hospitalized older adults (age 65 and older) are discharged to a skilled nursing facility after a qualified hospital stay (G.M. Harper et al., eds., Geriatric Review Syllabus, 11th ed. [American Geriatrics Society, 2022]). The...

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Advanced Practice Providers Take Center Stage With the 2023 Cowles Award

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
Advanced practice providers (APPs) received well-deserved attention from the Caring for the Ages readers in 2023. At the end of every year, we compile download data and analyze the most popular articles of the past 12 months. The top article is the...

Pharmacogenomics: A Personalized Approach to Improving Long-Term Care Outcomes

Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2024
As providers in post-acute and long-term care aspire to excellence in providing person-centered care for their residents, integrating personalized precision medicine would seem to be a natural extension of this goal. In this vein, the field of...