Making the Most of Holidays With Your Loved One in a Long-Term Care Facility
Erin Vigne, MA, RN, director of clinical affairs at AMDA, shares some insights into how to have joyous holidays and happy memories when your loved one is in a nursing home or other long-term care facility. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - November 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Tags: Caregiver ’s Corner Source Type: news
Consideration of Cultural Diversity and Ethical Principles in Advance Care Planning
“The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation.” — Graham Cooke (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Fatima A. Naqvi Tags: Medical Ethics Source Type: news
Guiding My Career: How the Futures Program Refined What It Means to Care for Older Adults
Not often do you find someone interested in geriatrics from the beginning of medical school, but that person was me. My love of caring for older adults began with a research internship I had at the National Institute on Aging where I worked the two summers before medical school. I also was the president of my medical school ’s geriatrics club in my first two years, during which time my passion for the great needs of older adults grew deeper. Little did I know, however, that geriatrics was such a broad and vast field. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Emily Zagorski Tags: Foundation Futures Source Type: news
Long-Term Caring: Shifting Paradigms
When our parents become old and infirm — and then we ourselves — where do we turn? (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Jerald Winakur Tags: Meditations on Geriatric Medicine Source Type: news
How We Care: Confronting Racial Disparities in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
When I was eight years old, I remember walking through two oversized doors into a grand foyer with yellow-kissed walls, lush rugs bespeckled with tiny flowers, and shiny wood floors. The wonder of this room was eclipsed only by a sea of smiling faces, and the question that dominated my thoughts: Had I found the place where grandparents are made? (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Diane Sanders-Cepeda Source Type: news
Homelessness and Access to Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Twenty years ago, still fresh out of college and not exactly sure what was next, I found myself back in Atlanta (where I had grown up) and answering a need at an organization my parents had started some 25 years earlier. The Open Door Community worked to address the needs of the homeless poor in Atlanta by providing a range of services (soup kitchens, showers, clothes closet, and weekly medical clinic) while also advocating for supportive and just legislation to end homelessness. As I arrived back in Atlanta, they needed a volunteer and on-site coordinator for the weekly medical clinic, and I fit the bill. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Hannah Murphy Buc Source Type: news
News From The Society
Staff and resident vaccinations were around long before the pandemic. AMDA is working on promoting vaccinations, not just for COVID but for the flu and other conditions, through Moving Needles, its new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded initiative. “With this new program, AMDA members and others now have a new shot at improving vaccination rates with evidence-based tools and resources,” said Project Director Elizabeth Sobczyk, MSW, MPH. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
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Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
In This Issue
Taking Pride in Celebrating LGBTQ+ Residents, Staff (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Spotlight On Policy
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has been working with the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services to gain clarification around telehealth visits and in-person visits in the nursing facility during the public health emergency (PHE). Some confusion stemmed from an April 7, 2022, CMS memo (https://go.cms.gov/3cwK0Vw) that ended the blanket waiver for regulatory physician visits completed via telehealth. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
CNA Week: The Sweet, the Bittersweet, and the Inexcusable
I love CNA Week, and special events like this have never been more important. Everyone in long-term care is so busy and, frankly, so tired we often don ’t take the time to cheer on our certified nurse assistants (CNAs) and remind them of how essential they are to the care, happiness, and comfort of their residents. The opportunity to celebrate our great CNAs — to stop and say thank you, and recognize their value — is priceless. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Lori Porter Source Type: news
COVID Hasn ’t Killed This Medical Conference
Medical conferences have been fundamentally curtailed and altered by the COVID-19 pandemic, as lamented in “Has COVID Killed the Medical Conference?” (BMJ 2022;376:o412). Yet connecting and personally exchanging ideas with experts in conference settings can be so enriching, stimulating, and necessary to the daily work of clinicians. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Sing Palat Source Type: news
Cognitive Biases Are a Perennial Challenge During Assessment and Treatment of Patients in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
Dear Dr. Steve: A middle-aged man was recently admitted to our facility for post-acute care after cardiac bypass surgery and a sternal wound that became infected subsequently. He was confused and had behavior issues at the post-acute care facility. The hospital alleged that he had hepatic encephalopathy, and the nursing home staff and practitioners concurred. However, it turned out that when questioned, his family reported that he did not drink. The cause of his problem were postoperative delirium and side effects of the medications that were started during hospitalization. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Steven A. Levenson Tags: Dear Dr. Steve Source Type: news
Ensuring That Your Loved Ones Are Embraced and Celebrated for Who They Are
Rajeev Kumar, MD, CMD, co-chair of AMDA ’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Workgroup, talks about DEI and what it means to residents, families, and others. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Beginning the Journey to Cultural Humility and Cultural Competence
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. —Stephen R. Covey (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - October 1, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Linda J. Keilman, Fatima Sheikh Source Type: news
