Longtime Wheeling physician Dr. William Mercer has received a national award for his leadership in the medical community. The Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed), a national network for those working in long-term care facilities, awarded four “Visionary Leaders” for its 2025 leaders...
The Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has announced the recipients of its national leadership and excellence awards for 2025. William Carl Mercer, MD, CMD, is the 2025 Medical Director of the Year; Howard J. Finger, DO, is the 2025 Clinician of the Year; Victoria Walker, MD, FAAFP, CMD,...
To investigate the rate of, and factors affecting, acceptance of pharmacists’ recommendations by medical prescribers following medication reviews conducted in non-hospitalized older adults.
Multimorbidity poses significant challenges to the well-being of middle-aged and older adults, but its impact on end-of-life experiences remains relatively underexplored and inconsistent. This study aims to investigate the association between the number of chronic conditions and 6 end-of-life outcomes acro...
Early research reported that older adults who stopped walking when they began a conversation were more likely to fall in the future. As a systematic measure of dual-task performance, Verghese and colleagues developed the Walking While Talking (WWT) test, in which a person walks at a normal pace while recit...
For older adults, spending time out of bed is important for preventing functional decline, but its relationship to mortality is not clear. In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between mortality and time spent out of bed in Japanese older-adult nursing home residents.