Clinicians working in nursing homes provide better end-of-life care: study
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
Clinicians who work at skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes can be crucial to improve the quality of end-of-life care for residents, according to a new study.
Group issues new bill of rights for people with Alzheimer’s disease
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
Voices of Alzheimer’s, a nonprofit organization, recently created a bill of rights for people living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Program continues to develop future aging researchers
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) Program is an initiative cultivating the next generation of researchers in aging in order to help older adults boost their physical function,...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, March 19
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
Flu still elevated in US while COVID-19, RSV declining … Test could prevent drug interactions … Medicare gaps keep weight loss drugs from older adults … Social frailty linked to pneumococcal infections...
AARP: 4 years later, COVID-19 still rages in nursing homes
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
Even as nursing home cases and deaths related to COVID-19 are declining, a recent analysis finds the virus is still wreaking havoc in long-term care settings.
Nursing homes turn away people recovering from opioid addiction, report finds
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
Skilled nursing facilities in Rhode Island got the attention of Americans with Disabilities Act advocates when they refused to admit people coming out of hospitals after treatment for opioid addiction,...
Report endorses adding more nursing home residents in clinical trials, shares framework to do so
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
A commentary published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on March 14 talks about the need for clinical trials among people living in nursing homes.
Clinical briefs for Monday, March 18
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
FDA approves first drug for type of liver disease … Study: Healthy diet slows aging, protects against dementia … Docs find microplastics in some patients’ artery plaque … Prescription copay programs...
CDC: Health facilities were site of over 50 percent of drinking water outbreaks between 2015-2020
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 15, 2024
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published Thursday revealed that pathogens including legionella and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are the top causes of waterborne disease...
Neurological conditions top cardiovascular disease as chunk of global disease burden, report finds
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 15, 2024
Neurological conditions affected about 43% of all people on the globe in 2021 — beating out cardiovascular diseases as the top contributor to global disease burden, according to a new report.