The start of the new year is a great time to collaborate with facility administrators to create realistic, achievable, and meaningful resolutions to position your facility to excel at meeting the key requirements of the medical director role in...
The concept of value-based care (VBC) isn’t new, but there is new urgency for practitioners and other stakeholders to understand what VBC is and how it impacts them and their patients. This urgency comes most significantly from a recent announcement...
Imagine this meal: braised local short rib of beef, crab cakes with pumpkin risotto and a saffron corn cream sauce, followed by a dessert of hazelnut and chocolate mousse petit fours with a Frangelico pumpkin cream sauce. You might think you could...
A growing specialty for certified nurse assistants revolves around palliative, hospice, and end-of-life care. These three concepts are related, but they also hold distinct opportunities for you to use your unique skills and abilities.
With the 2023 deaths of former First Lady Rosalyn Carter and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor we lost two strong and knowledgeable advocates for family caregivers.
The relationship between ethics and public policy has been evolving quite rapidly over the last 20 years or so. The relationship has always inherently been there, of course, but it is especially apparent in public policy related to the delivery of...
The human endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a complex network of cannabinoids, receptors, and signaling molecules that regulate physiological processes such as mood, appetite, pain, sleep, and immune function. First mapped in 1990, the ECS plays a...
Nursing home residents may experience fewer adverse effects and more benefits by receiving treatment for certain conditions on-site at the nursing home instead of in a hospital.
Prescriptions of psychotropic drugs increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a greater increase of antipsychotic drugs prescribed to individuals with dementia, according to a study of assisted living facilities in Alberta...
An individual’s cognitive ability, independence when performing activities of daily living (ADL), and physical function at admission may help predict how much physical function will improve during a rehabilitation stay at a skilled nursing facility...
