New approach supports comprehensive advance care planning in nursing homes
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 28, 2022
A comprehensive advance care planning model was highly rated by residents or their proxies, and linked to decreased use of antimicrobials, investigators say.
Dementia soars among U.S. adults at end of life, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 04, 2022
About half of older U.S. adults receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia shortly before their death — a number that has spiked by more than 34% in two decades, according to a...
Six years after mandate, most of state’s nursing home residents had POLST forms
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 14, 2022
By 2016, 81% of California’s long-stay residents and 68% of short-stay residents had physician orders for life-sustaining treatment recorded in the MDS.
Advance care planning rose dramatically among minorities through intervention, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 25, 2022
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...
Validating fears helps shift patients’ palliative care expectations: study
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 16, 2022
Patients and family members are better able to consider end-of-life care recommendations when their healthcare provider focuses on changing expectations rather than on changing emotions, researchers have...
Study: Assumption endures that Black LTC residents’ proxies reluctant to engage in advance care planning
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 27, 2022
Investigators have found a persistent assumption among nursing home clinicians, administrators and other staff that Black residents’ families prefer more intensive end-of-life interventions.
Medicare and Medicaid recipients, minorities receive more low-value, aggressive cancer care at end of...
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
Investigators found that people of Black and Asian or Pacific Islander race, Hispanic ethnicity, with public insurance status, and who were admitted to an urban teaching hospital were more likely to receive...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Aug. 25
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 25, 2021
Training not enough to reduce hospitalization, ED visits in end-of-life care … Breakthrough infections may be less transmissible, study in healthcare workers suggests … Wider vaccine approvals on the...
Caregivers can help elders retain their dignity during intimate hygiene care, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 07, 2021
Clinicians can offer “moments of micro-competence,” giving palliative care patients a voice in how they receive care as their abilities decline, investigators say.
Skilled nursing facility guidance part of Arizona’s revised crisis care plan
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Alicia Lasek
May 27, 2021
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...