Advance Care Planning

A comprehensive advance care planning model was highly rated by residents or their proxies, and linked to decreased use of antimicrobials, investigators say.

Older patients were more likely to record their end-of-life care wishes when they watched educational videos and received clinical counsel during the pandemic, a new study finds. Documentation among Black...

Fully 91% of participants responded that they had at least one barrier to initiating advance care planning. When compared with their peers who reported none, these study participants were more likely to...

The revisions include guidance on honoring care and treatment preferences in federal skilled nursing facilities. The changes follow a complaint against the state brought by national and local disability...

There’s a clear need to improve the quality of Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, in nursing homes, says Susan E. Hickman, Ph.D. An expert on the subject, she spoke with...

A study that followed residents through all stages of emergency department transfers and care has found that certain comorbidities and levels of stress can predict subsequent recovery from symptoms.

Advance care planning increases among nursing home residents during pandemic … CMS podcast for frontline nursing home staff tackles training, coronavirus control … Cardio fitness and muscle strength...

More than half of adults diagnosed with dementia die within five years – signaling a need for informed conversations about care, say researchers.

Can dementia screening harm a patient’s mental health? Not according to a study of diverse Indiana primary clinics.

A memory-care expert is the latest advocate for greater use and expansion of Medicare’s largely untapped dementia care planning benefit.