EDGE22: A Frank, Fresh Look at Workforce Challenges Takes Center Stage
Addressing the issues, controversies, and challenges confronting post-acute and long-term care in this transitional time can be difficult and uncomfortable. Often there are no black or white answers or one definitive solution. That is where AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s EDGE Virtual Symposium steps in. The EDGE22 Symposium held in late October presented an overview of the current climate, including some hard facts and varied viewpoints, and it inspired participants to identity ways they can make a diffe rence. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Joanne Kaldy Source Type: news
Starting the New Year With Less Baggage, More Optimism
In this new quarterly Caring column, National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA) CEO and cofounder Lori Porter, NAHCA board chair and long-time certified nursing assistant (CNA) Sherry Perry, and CNA and member of the NAHCA board Branden Fillbrook share insights and guidance for post-acute and long-term care CNAs and other team members as a new year starts. Written by senior contributing writer Joanne Kaldy. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Alcohol Use in Long-Term Care Communities: Juggling Choice and Safety
Alcohol consumption is a part of life for many people, and nearly half (43.9%) of Americans aged 65 and older consume alcohol. It ’s not surprising that many want to continue to drink in some capacity after they enter a post-acute and long-term care facility. But this can present a challenge for practitioners and staff in their efforts to balance safety and choice. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Joanne Kaldy Source Type: news
My Unique Experience as a Nurse Practitioner in the Futures Program
During the Futures Program in 2021, I learned a lot about how to manage long-term care patients, which included weighing the risks and potential rewards of aspirin in our older patient population, minimizing polypharmacy, and broaching palliative care as an ongoing discussion over several visits. But what struck me the most during this conference was how unique my experience as a nurse practitioner was compared with that of other providers — namely, physicians. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Rebecca Waksmunski Tags: Foundation Futures Source Type: news
Light Therapy Can Improve Sleep Quality
Light therapy can improve the sleep quality of individuals in nursing homes, researchers found. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Dietary Salt Intake and Cognitive Function
Excessive dietary salt intake can harm cognition in older adults, according to a prospective, population-based cohort study in the Shandong area of the People ’s Republic of China. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Journal Highlights From the January Issue of JAMDA
Collaborative telepsychiatry can help reduce symptoms of depression and result in fewer trips to the hospital among older adults who have co-occurring chronic medical conditions, according to a study in southern California. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Tags: Journal Highlights Source Type: news
Decisional Capacity — When and How to Determine
“A& O × 3.” What exactly does that mean? Those of us in post-acute and long-term care will recognize this as shorthand for “Alert and Oriented times three,” which is often the extent of many residents’ “decisional capacity evaluation,” relegated to a portion of the clinical examination that i s frequently glossed over and buried in a note. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Damien Doyle, Howard L. Sollins Source Type: news
Dental Care in Older Adults: How to Resolve Barriers to Care and Promote Good Oral Hygiene
With the new year upon us, many of us make resolutions to improve our health and well-being. Popular resolutions include exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, and taking better care of our oral health by regularly brushing for two minutes twice a day, flossing, and visiting the dentist and dental hygienist. Personally I have struggled to maintain many of my new year resolutions, but I have been fastidious about caring for my teeth and gums since I was a young adult. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Elizabeth Galik Tags: Caring Collaborative Source Type: news
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January 28, 2023 (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Caring for the Ages Readership Survey Results
We would like to thank the readers of Caring for the Ages who took the time to respond to our 2022 Reader Survey. We were thrilled with the incredible number of responses and encouraged by your comments! (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Tess Bird Source Type: news
Therapeutic Filmmaking, Artistic Collaboration, and Dementia: Exploring Possibilities with Filmmaker Michelle Memran
Filmmaker Michelle Memran became interested in therapeutic filmmaking after spending much of her twenties making a collaborative documentary with the visionary Cuban American playwright Mar ía Irene Fornés, who wrote more than three dozen plays and was the recipient of numerous prestigious grants and awards (https://fornesinstitute.com/about/biography). The documentary, entitled The Rest I Make Up (2018), chronicles Ms. Memran’s artistic collaboration with Ms. Fornés during the ea rly stages of the playwright’s dementia and is a testament to the resilience of the creative spirit and the enduring pleasures of friends...
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Tess Bird Tags: Creative Corner Source Type: news
Did you know Caring for the Ages now has an Instagram account?
If you have Instagram, please consider following us and sharing our content! We ’re hoping that this account can help us reach new audiences and grow our online readership. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
DEI to Its CORE
“Where are you from?” This was the first question Ms. Sylvia asked me after we settled down in our chairs where she could hear and see me. She had functional hearing aids that had been recently updated, but due to her sensorineural hearing loss the person she was speaking with needed to sit clos e by, where she could read lips and hear at the same time. I informed her, “I am from Pakistan.” Then she inquired further, “From where in Pakistan?” (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - November 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Fatima Naqvi Tags: Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Source Type: news
What the Activity Profession Taught Me About Caring for My Dad
My dad was born in June 1928 as part of the Greatest Generation, enlisting in the U.S. Army upon graduating from high school. He was stationed in Italy during the cessation of hostilities and still talks about his two years of service as though it were yesterday. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - November 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Peter J. Illig Source Type: news
