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WASHINGTON – Members of a national advisory council on Alzheimer’s disease have identified preliminary goals and specific recommendations for a national strategic plan to slow or even halt the expected rise in new cases. The plan aims to prevent and effectively treat the disease by as early as... »
Burdensome Transitions Common in Dementia Patients’ Final Days
Nearly one in five patients with advanced cognitive and functional impairment who are in their final days of life is subjected to a burdensome, potentially unnecessary transition in health care, such as being moved from a nursing home to a hospital, according to a report in the New England Journal... » Medicine and journalism are not so different. Ask writer and reporter Beth Macy, who will deliver one of the featured lectures at AMDA's upcoming annual meeting, Long Term Care Medicine-2012. A small-town newspaperwoman by trade, Ms. Macy learned more than she expected about long-term care medicine... » ST. CHARLES, MO. – Getting elderly patients to talk about their illnesses, their feelings, and their care preferences can be challenging, especially when these people come from a culture where open communication is considered inappropriate or even disgraceful, Diane Heliker, PhD, told her audience... » SAN FRANCISCO ? Edgar Pierluissi, MD, medical director of the Acute Care for Elders Unit at San Francisco General Hospital recently looked at falls in elders by the numbers. First, they?re the number 1 cause of hip fractures, he reminded his audience at a conference on osteoporosis sponsored by the... »
Writers and Doctors Share Role Telling Patients' Stories
Tool Could Let Information Flow
Falls in Older Adults Preventable in Acute Care, Says Expert
Nearly one in five patients with advanced cognitive and functional impairment who are in their final days of life is subjected to a burdensome, potentially unnecessary transition in health care, such as being moved from a... »
Falls in Older Adults Preventable in Acute Care, Says Expert
SAN FRANCISCO ? Edgar Pierluissi, MD, medical director of the Acute Care for Elders Unit at San Francisco General Hospital recently looked at falls in elders by the numbers. First, they?re the number 1 cause of hip... »
Sleep-Disordered Breathing Yields More Cognitive Impairment
Sleep-disordered breathing – recurrent arousals and intermittent hypoxemia – raised elderly women’s risk of developing cognitive impairment within 5 years. The hypoxia associated with sleep-disordered breathing, rather... »
Long-term care facilities are under significant pressure to control pharmacy costs and with good reason. They are the second highest costs for facilities, behind only wages. The LTC-pharmacy consulting firm I am part of,... »
The Allure - and Importance - of Chocolate
Dear Dr. Jeff: Since the recent story in the New York Times about the positive effect of chocolate on patients with Alzheimer's disease, I have been receiving telephone calls from families requesting that their relatives be... »
Resident Elopements: Implementing and Maintaining Appropriate Safety Measures
One of the most frequently cited noncompliance deficiencies is F-tag 323, which requires a nursing facility to ensure that the resident environment remains as free of accident hazards as is possible and that each resident... »
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