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Top Medical Directors Share Their Secrets to Success: Annual Symposium session touted staff communication, problem solving, and daring to change. JOANNE KALDY page 1 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (230 KB)
Common Sense Urged Regarding Sexuality DOUG BRUNK page 1 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (312 KB)
Guest Editorial
Let Residents Write Their Own Stories Susan L. Schrader page 4 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (173 KB)
Dear Dr. B
When School's in Session, Be a Class Act David Brechtelsbauer page 5 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (100 KB)
Public Policy
The Medical-Spending Debate Continues: The President's cuts got a cool reception while other long-term care issues heated up. Susan M. Pettey page 7 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (97 KB)
Correction page 8 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (206 KB)
One Year to Better Physician Services
Shared Expectations Plus Commitment Equals Quality Care in a Nursing Facility Lorraine Tarnove page 9 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (92 KB)
Legal Issues
Health Care Homicide? Or, Are Medical Errors Being Increasingly Criminalized? Janet K. Feldkamp page 10 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (105 KB)
Medical Ethics
Ethics Means Respecting the Individual When a Person's Desires Are Unclear: Providers should neither force treatment that would have been unwanted nor deny care that would have been chosen. Jeffrey Nichols page 19 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (99 KB)
Residents Benefit from Psychiatric Consults DOUG BRUNK page 20 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (177 KB)
Networking Opens Doors for Palliative Care, Say Doctors in Rural Practices: Start in hospice but work with multiple institutions for compensation and specialty training. KERRI WACHTER page 21 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (111 KB)
New Therapies Promising for Wound Healing: All of the latest technologies for treatment of nonhealing wounds have pluses and minuses. DOUG BRUNK page 22 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (112 KB)
Being a Change Agent Makes Dollars, Sense: Symposium session featured real-world experiences of people making a difference in LTC. JOANNE KALDY page 23 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (204 KB)
News From the Association
AMDA House Passes EOL White Paper page 24 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (100 KB)
AMDA Recognizes Volunteers for Their Dedication to LTC Medicine page 24 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (100 KB)
Training for Medical Directors Of the Future page 24 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (100 KB)
Don't Miss These Events page 25 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (80 KB)
Advancing Excellence Webinars Reach Thousands of NH Staff page 25 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (80 KB)
Revised CPGs Are Popular at Annual Symposium page 25 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (80 KB)
Can't Get Away for CME? Try Your State Chapter page 25 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (80 KB)
Influence the Culture of LTC page 25 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (80 KB)
Families Need Dementia Facts Joanne Kaldy page 26 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (230 KB)
‘Namaste’ Care Honors the Spirit Within Advanced-Dementia Patients JOANNE KALDY page 26 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (230 KB)
Elders' Stoicism Limits Pain Management KATE JOHNSON page 27 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (116 KB)
Tools Can Enhance Capacity Judgment JOANNE KALDY page 28 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (133 KB)
Panel Notes Modest Dementia-Drug Effects MICHELE G. SULLIVAN page 29 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (158 KB)
Donepezil Improves Executive Function in Test SHARON WORCESTER page 29 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (158 KB)
Bill Would Boost Long-Term Care Training JANE ANDERSON page 30 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (123 KB)
Panel Reveals Means to Better Transitions: The round trip from emergency room to hospital to nursing facility is fraught with danger. KATHLEEN M. WILSON page 32 Preview | Full Text | Full-Text PDF (113 KB)
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