Appetite stimulants should be one of the last things a provider considers when a patient is noted to have decreased meal intake, but family members will often request an appetite stimulant for an individual who is eating less and has had some...
Negative personality changes may occur in both the preclinical and clinical stages of cognitive impairment, according to results of a longitudinal observation cohort study.
A 76-year-old male patient, who was wheelchair bound due to cervical stenosis but not terminally ill, wanted to stop eating and drinking to hasten his death. The attending doctor, who provided care according to the medical literature, was...
I’m just calling to let you know that Mr. Hayes fell again. The nursing assistant found him on the floor in the hallway this afternoon. He didn’t hurt himself, and his vital signs are OK. He has fallen four times in the past month. I know that you...
After I missed an Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine because I needed a coronary stent, the first person to talk to me at the following year’s meeting was Bob Kaplan. He shared his own near-death...
A group of residents at the Carolina Meadows Continuing Care Retirement Community in Chapel Hill, NC, tapped into a well of creativity when they wrote and performed a musical, Movin’, about their experiences with aging.
