Long Term Care Information Series
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Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Osteoporosis and Fracture Prevention CPG
The aging process, the postmenopausal state, low calcium intake, lack of physical activity, and other risk factors predispose the elderly to low bone mass. Most elderly nursing facility patients have age-related changes in bones, resulting in a lower than normal bone mass. This tool will guide the physicia...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Pain Management 2021 CPG
This package includes the Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline, and the Pain Management Pocket Guide. The CPG provides a foundation for a systematic approach to the recognition, assessment, treatment and monitoring of pain in PALTC care patients. It addresses common questions related to pain mana...
CPG Implementation Series
Pain Management CPG, Implementation Manual, PM Pocket Guide
This implementation manual delineates a systematic, well-planned implementation process for implementing the Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG). It is designed to assist physicians, nurses and advanced practitioners to support evidence-based clinical and management decision-making. It is int...
CPG Teachling Slides
Pain Management in the PALTC Setting Teaching for CNAs
These teaching slides on Pain Management emphasizes how the CNA is often the first member of the IDT to recognize a patient in pain. With an easy to understand methods that are utilized by nursing staff of recognition, assessment, treatment and monitoring, the CNA can utilize the different pain scales to h...
CPG Pocket Guides
Pain Management Pocket Guide (Set of 5)
Pain management in post-acute/long-term care (PALTC) is identified in a step-wise approach for patients in this setting. This quick reference pocket guide includes the general principles for prescribing and titrating opioids including opioid titration options. Pain medications, as well as non-pharmacologic...
Long Term Care Information Series
Palliative Care in the Long-Term Care Setting
Professionals caring for frail older adults understand that the percentage of patients dying in hospitals is decreasing while the percentage of patients dying at home or in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities is increasing. Patients may experience physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering ...
Practice Management Tools
PALTmed Model Medical Director Agreement and Supplemental Materials: Medical Director of a Nursing Facility
This package serves as a guide for agreements for medical director services in nursing facilities. It includes a model agreement between the medical director and the nursing facility; performance requirements and the roles and responsibilities of a medical director; PALTmed’s statement on compensation for ...
CPG Pocket Guides
Parkinson's Disease & Psychosis In The Paltc Setting Pocket Guide (Set of 5)
“Parkinson’s Disease and Psychosis in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting” is a new pocket guide developed by geriatricians, neurologists, and movement disorder specialists from Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed). The guide includes an extensive glossary to clarify terminolog...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Parkinson's Disease CPG
This package includes the Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Practice Guideline, and the Parkinson’s Disease & Psychosis in PALTC Pocket Guide. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative movement disorder. While there is no known treatment, the symptoms can be controlled with medication,...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Pressure Ulcers & Other Wounds CPG
Newly updated, the Pressure Ulcers and Other Wounds CPG now includes information regarding arterial and venous ulcers, in addition to pressure ulcers, as well as the new NPUAP staging terminology. Pressure ulcers and other wounds remain a major cause of mortality and morbidity in PALTC, affecting an est...
CPG Pocket Guides