When the first resident I’d cared for at the nursing home died, I was overwhelmed with sadness. I was unsure what to do or what would happen next. Should I call her family to offer my condolences? I had only known Mrs. G and her family for three...
As the demand for assisted living communities continues to rise, so does the need for competent and skilled nursing professionals to care for the older adult population residing in these communities. The American Assisted Living Nurses Association (...
A typical chapter of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine relies on membership dues and state conference revenue to maintain its level of services. But, as we all know, there are risk factors that we often cannot control...
We have read with great interest the recently published article by Borda et al.1 The authors have tried to investigate the correlation between temporal muscle thickness (TMT) and appendicular lean muscle mass (ALM) index measured by dual-energy x-...
To evaluate the epidemiologic, clinical, and economic value of an annual nursing home (NH) COVID-19 vaccine campaign and the impact of when vaccination starts.
