- Navigating the Unique Regulatory Challenges of Digital Health Technologies
- Improving Health Care for Aging Patient Populations:
6 Tactics to Minimize Wait Times
- A Former AD Care Partner’s Perspective on Leqembi
- Using In Lieu of Services to Generate Medicare and Medicaid Savings and a Nationwide Model Worth Following From California
- Geriatricians Lead the Way in Safe Prescribing for Older Adults
- Gain the Competitive Edge: Three Crucial Reasons Your Practice Needs an Internet Contingency Plan
- The Hidden Danger: Why Reducing Infection in Nursing Homes Should be a National Priority
- The Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist in Treatment for Dementia
- Three Steps Your Practice Can Take to Mitigate Physician Burnout
- Building the Tracks: Large-Scale Long-Term Support and Services Rebalancing Programs Will Require Fixing the Chronic Assisted Living Caregiver Shortage
- Enhanced Technology Ensures High-Quality Care for Older Adults During Staff Shortages
- Essential Gatekeepers
- New Tools in the Toolbox: The Use of In Lieu of Services for SNF Diversion/Transition to Assisted Living
- The Vital Connection Between Technology and the Social Determinants of Health for Older Adults
- American Heart Association Quality Certifications: Navigating the Maze of Nonhospital Care
- Paving the Way: A New Program in California Could Be a Model for LTSS Rebalancing Around the Nation
- Potentially Inappropriate Medications
- Burned Out by the Pandemic? War Zone Medicine Tips From an Army Physician-Turned-Geriatrician
- Dual-Eligibles and CalAIM: A New Medicaid Managed Care Model in California
- Risks of Common Drugs for Geriatric Patients — Study Highlights Need for Medication Decision Support
- The American Rescue Plan Act: $11 Billion Allocated to States to Increase Home and Community-Based Services
- Digital Humans: Helping Doctors and Patients Meet Demands
- Home-Based Palliative Care: High Touch, Value-Based Approach Leads to Better Outcomes for Seriously Ill Patients
- Keys to the Locks: Assisted Living as an Incurred Claim to Satisfy the Medical Loss Ratio
- Open Pathways
- Medical Insurance Planning for a Healthy Practice in 2021
- Patient-First Model Meets Needs of Older Adults With Rare and Orphan Diseases
- Need for Quality Measures and Reporting to Remain a Top Priority Post Pandemic
- New Mandate for Nursing Homes: Test Residents and Staff for COVID-19 or Face Fines
- How Surface Testing Empowers Long Term Care Communities and Nursing Homes
- Chronic Disease, Isolation, COVID-19, and Mental Health: How Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring Can Help
- How Contact Tracing Empowers Elder Living Communities
- Remote Cardiac Care via Telehealth — Before, During, and After a Pandemic
- Physician Suicide and Mental Health — Medicine Is Our Calling, but It’s Not Supposed to Kill Us!
- Want to Improve Patient Relationships? Let Patients Express Their Preferences
- How the Elderly Can Manage the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis
- Sports Gambling: Increasing Older Adults’ Vulnerability to Gambling
- Tips for Providing Dental Care to Patients With Alzheimer’s
- Remote Patrol: Engaging Seniors in Wireless Health Monitoring
- Addressing End-of-Life Care Misconceptions With Advance Care Models
- Differentiating Between Delirium and Age-Related Dementia
- Improving Quality Measures for SNFs — CMS Upgrades Nursing Home Rating System
- The Need for Strategies to Increase Influenza Immunization in Underserved Communities
- Understanding Dysphagia and the Importance of Following a Modified Diet
- Atherosclerosis and Aging — Insights Into the Role of the Endothelial Glycocalyx in Cardiovascular Health
- Stopping Infection Outbreaks in Their Tracks With Diagnostic Technology
- Texting Medical Orders: Efficient Communication Method or Safety Concern?
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Electronic Signature Saves Time and Generates Revenue … When Done Right
- How to Ease the Impact of Financial Worries That Undermine a Patient's Care
- Putting Older People First
- A Caregiver Perspective: Alzheimer's Is a Family Affair — Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease Must Involve the Entire Family
- How Geriatricians Can Help Their Patients Address Incontinence
- Use It Not to Lose It
- Reducing the Economic and Physical Impact of Older Adults' Falls
- Frailty Influences Postop Outcomes
- Montessori Methods Improve Quality of Life for Individuals With Dementia
- New Alzheimer's Association Report Reveals Sharp Increases in Alzheimer's Prevalence, Deaths, and Cost of Care
- Should Providers Work When Sick?
- Is There a Case to Be Made for Nursing Home Specialists?
- Judicious Feeding Options at the End of Life
- Shingrix Emerges as Alternative to Zostavax
- Monitoring Hospice Medications
- Sensors Can Identify Sleep Stages
- Improving Device Noise Control
- Remote Technology Monitors Heart Failure Patients
- Facility Design Improves Dementia Residents' Social Well-Being
- Genetics Key to Value of Hormone Therapy for Reducing Fracture Risk
- Standard Hearing Tests Miss Common Form of Hearing Loss
- APRNs in Nursing Homes Can Curb Avoidable Hospitalizations
- Heart Attack Survivors Not Referred for Needed Rehab
- Polypharmacy of Psychotropic Drugs Rising
- Recognizing the Value of Postacute Care Partners
- Rural Nursing Homes Lag in IT Sophistication
- Physicians Continue to Prescribe Low-Value Treatments
- Frailty Underrecognized in Older Surgical Patients
- Time Window to Treat Stroke Longer Than Previously Thought
- Surface Electromyography Device Assists in Rehabilitation of Swallowing Disorders
- Palliative Care Consultations in Nursing Homes
- Measuring Cognitive Change in Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
- Promoting Mobility in Hospitalized Elderly Patients
- Amyloid PET Imaging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
- Mild Behavioral Impairment: Harbinger of Dementia?
- Benefits of Sharing Notes With Patients
- Overweight BMI Linked to Lower Risk of Death
- New Guidelines for Stroke Rehabilitation
- New Drug Shows Promise in Treating Parkinson's Disease Psychosis
- Barriers to End-of-Life Care Conversations
- The High Costs of Insomnia
- Low Vitamin D Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk
- Social Involvement and Sleep
- Ethnogeriatrics Promotes Cultural Competence in Medicine
- Surgery and Cognitive Dysfunction
- New Gel Effectively Heals Wounds
- Person-Centered Care Fosters Shared Decision Making
- Expanding Gerontology's Reach
- As Antibiotic Resistance Increases, Stewardship Is Critical
- New American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria
- Yoga as Therapy for Depression, Anxiety
- Purgative Meals for Colonoscopy Prep
- Botox as Incontinence Therapy
- Technology: Health Care Solve for Elders?
- Improving Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates
- Ibuprofen: Risk, Comorbidities, and Pain Management
- Hospice Benefits Extend Beyond Patients
- Men's Osteoporosis Prevention and Screening Neglected
- Stem Cell Injections for AMD
- The NET Model
- Gouty Arthritis: Expensive and Hard to Treat
- Judicious Antibiotic Use Reduces C Diff Burden
- DICE Dementia Treatment Preferable to Drugs
- Reducing Benzodiazepine Use
- Prudence and Contemporary Gerontology
- Reducing Diabetes Overtreatment
- Discussing End-of-Life Care
- Treating Psychosis That Can Accompany Parkinson's Disease
- Reducing Antipsychotics in Skilled Nursing Facilities
- New Program Focuses on Alzheimer's Prevention
- Sleep Disturbances and Osteoarthritis
- Cameras Rate Low for Ensuring Nursing Home Care
- Subsensory Vibratory Stimulation Improves Balance
- The CARERS Program
- Telescope Implant Improves Vision in Macular Degeneration
- Inflammation, Osteoporosis, and Fracture Risk
- Varicose Vein Treatment
- Alzheimer’s Prevention Registry: A Dynamic Approach
- New Technologies Reduce Falls
- Telephone Treatment of Depression Effective After CABG
- Study Endorses Levodopa for Parkinson’s Treatment
- One in Five Medicare Beneficiaries Experiences Adverse Medical Events
- Pain Management via Smartphone App
- Mobile Technology’s Potential for Addressing ADEs
- Stretta Procedure Can Eliminate GERD
- Hearing Loss Associated With Accelerated Brain Tissue Loss
- New AD Drug May Improve Memory and Function
- Anti-VEGF Treats Wet Macular Degeneration
- Brain Training Produces Effects Even After 10 Years
- A New Frontier for Battling Pressure Ulcers
- Telemedicine Effectively Treats Parkinson’s Patients
- Nurses Play Key Roles in OPTIMISTIC Project
- Pills to Treat Recurring C Diff?
- Improving Patient Care: Back to Basics
- Antibiotic Resistance and Older Adults
- Proactive Pertussis Prevention
- Minimizing Fear-Driven Diagnostic Testing
- Practical Use of Social Media and Electronic Communications
- Nonhormonal Treatment Provides Relief for Hot Flashes
- Anticipating Flu Season
- Protecting Patients From Dangerous Prescriptions
- Pharmacotherapy Considerations
- Urgent Need for Better End-of-Life Training
- Real-Time Data From the Home Improve Outcomes
- Are Scaly, Dry Skin Spots Actually Precancers?
- Can Elders Be Bullies?
- Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Care
- Depression Deficiency
- Zinc Deficiency in Older Adults
- Level of Frailty Dictates Hypertension Treatment
- CDC Calls for Pertussis Vigilance
- ADHD in Older Adults
- Promoting Patients’ Life Plan
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Implications for Geriatrics Practice
- Mesothelioma — No Stranger Among Older Adults
- Plavix Goes Generic
- Scrutinizing Medical Value
- Saving Brain
- Hospice for Dementia Patients
- Essential Tremor Treatment Shows Promise
- Improving Care Transitions
- The Sleep-Hypertension Connection
- Olive Oil and Stroke Prevention: Is There a Link?
- The Dependence Scale for Alzheimer’s Disease
- New Tools to Manage End-of-Life Decisions
- Crohn’s Disease and Restless Leg Syndrome Link?
- Alternative Degrees for Geriatrics Care
- Hepatitis C Can Occur in Patients Within Normal ALT Ranges
- Coordinating Care
- Vitamin E Savior?
- Treating Low Bone Mass — Three-Pronged Approach Focuses on Diet, Exercise, and Medication
- Condensed Care
- The Benefits of Bar Coding
- Making Strides
- Counseling’s Role in Averting AD
- Exercise Boot Camp for Boomers
- Zumba Gold Program Attracts Elders
- Stepping Up Therapy for Stroke Survivors
- MMSE vs. MoCA: What You Should Know
- Vitamin D’s Impact on Falls
- The Reality of Finding Meaning in Meaningful Use — How a Hybrid EMR System Can Help Your Practice Cut Costs and Increase Efficiency
- Hope for an Alzheimer’s Cure?
- Looming Medicare Changes
- Zumba Craze Attracts Older Adults
- MDS 3.0: Changes in Rules, Process, and Philosophy
- The POLST Paradigm: Improving End-of-Life Care
- Exercise Recommendations for Older Adults
- Alzheimer’s Cure on the Horizon?
- Treating Low Vision
- Planning for Emergencies
- Strength Training — Enhancing Elder Fitness
- Holistic Healing After a Heart Attack
- Shingles: Painful and Debilitating
- Addressing Anesthesia Concerns
- Exercise Combats Effects of Parkinson’s Disease
- Essential Care: Learning Patients’ Healthcare Wishes
- The Buzz About Bioidenticals
- Gout’s Resurgence
- An Ounce of Prevention — Fall-Proofing Elders
- Emergency Preparedness for Frail Elders
- New Hope in Neuroprotection? A Parkinson’s Disease Update
- Elder Eating Disorders: Surprising New Challenge
- Strength Training — Enhancing Elder Fitness
- Elder Suicide: A Needless Tragedy
- Combating Alzheimer’s Disease: A Medication Update
- Substance Abuse in Older Adults
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