Long-term care clinicians are continuously challenged to find ways to keep residents happy, healthy, and at home. In this era of managed cared models...
Institutional Special Needs Plans (I-SNPs) are catching on in long-term care. A Special Needs Plan (SNP) in the Medicare Advantage program addresses t...
Only just identified in 2019, LATE is now the focus of intensive dementia research—and surprises are emerging. Based on continuing discoveries, here a...
In longterm care facilities, CMS compliance depends on ensuring diagnostic accuracy and avoiding unnecessary use of antipsychotics and other psychotro...
Frailty and dementia are “closely linked,” explain Song and colleagues in a recent article published in JAMDA. In their study of 29,000+ nursing home...
World Alzheimer’s Month this September kicks off a campaign to raise awareness and eliminate the stigma surrounding dementia, says Alzheimer’s Disease...
Problems with swallowing, eating, speaking, and walking, along with cognitive changes and psychiatric disorders, often lead to admission to a skilled...
Even though 95% of individuals diagnosed with dementia have no formal history of serious mental illness, nearly all patients will exhibit psychiatric...
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) will ultimately affect nearly all patients living with dementia
Anxiety and depression are common neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease. What are the causes and how do these symptoms manifest?
Newly published research indicates that pneumonia and a range of adverse outcomes is associated with antipsychotic use among patients who have dementi...
there has been increasing discussion of the use of anticonvulsant (antiepileptic) medications for nursing home residents living with dementia. One of...
