Feds: Emergency department visits increase with age of nursing home residents
While residents aged 60 to 69 were found to account for 2% of ED visits, those aged 90 and older accounted for 24% of visits, according to new data.
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New residents’ health increasingly complex, finds nursing home study
The number of new residents with seven or more health conditions has risen, along with drug prescriptions per individual and age.
A whole new world: 15% growth in post-acute care among 30-year nursing home industry changes
The population of residents served by nursing homes has undergone dramatic changes since the call for an overhaul in 1987, a recent study shows.
Clinical Briefs for Thursday, December 19
Sound sleep may counter genetic risk of heart disease and stroke … Healthy diet could save $50 billion in cardiometabolic health care costs … Partnership aims to identify flu vaccines for elderly nursing home residents … Electronic health record scan can predict Alzheimer’s up to 8 years in advance
Nursing home residents should take fewer blood pressure medications, study finds
Clinicians may want to recommend that some residents reduce or stop the use of blood pressure medications, the authors of a new study suggest.
Clinical Briefs for Thursday, June 6
Headset and mobile app treat depression … Research into Alzheimer’s diagnostics to get $50 million boost … New law mandates vegan meals for nursing home residents
Doctor accused of vastly overprescribing antipsychotic to nursing home residents loses license
A Chicago psychiatrist has been stripped of his medical license over charges that he received kickbacks and overprescribed antipsychotic drug clozapine to nursing home residents.
Brain gym offers mental exercise
Nursing home residents and surrounding community members can break a mental sweat at The Village’s new brain gym offered by the University of Florida’s Health Vitality Mind research program.
Broker admits using nursing home residents as pawns in annuities scheme, agrees to $850,000 settlement
The mastermind of a financial fraud that victimized nursing home residents has admitted wrongdoing and will pay $850,000 in a settlement, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday.
Nursing homes trail hospitals in quality improvement, AHRQ report shows
About 60% of nursing home quality measures have been showing significant year-to-year improvement, but hospitals have been improving more quickly, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
