Institutionalization is generally a consequence of functional decline driven by physical limitations, cognitive impairments, and/or loss of social supports. At this stage, intervention to reverse functional losses is often too late. To be more effective, geriatric medicine must evolve to intervene at an ea...
Osteoporosis is underdiagnosed and undertreated in people living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), even though aged-care residents are at greater risk of experiencing fractures than their community-dwelling counterparts. The first (2009) and second (2016) Consensus Conferences on the Treatment o...
A substantial portion of “potentially inappropriate” systemic antibiotics in nursing homes are prescribed with the intention of preventing the development of bacterial infections. In the past, such practices were generally considered acceptable; however, they now are being increasingly scrutinized due to c...
CMS opened the Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. This gives clinicians and groups the ability to review their 2023 Quality Payment Program (QPP) performance information before it’s publicly reported on the profile pages of clinicians and groups on the Medicare.gov compare tool...
Older nursing home residents make up the population at greatest risk of morbidity and mortality from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. No studies have examined the determinants of long-term antibody responses post vaccination in this group.