Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report, “Long-Term Trends of Psychotropic Drug Use in Nursing Homes.” The OIG found that from 2011 through 2019, about 80 percent of Medicare's long-stay nursing home residents were prescribed a psychotropic drug.
Even as people age, lifestyle and other changes can still positively impact outcomes, well-being, and longevity. So, it’s not surprising that functional medicine, which involves a holistic, person-centered approach to health care that focuses on root causes of illness instead of just treating symptoms, is ...
Moving Needles, a project to improve immunization rates among residents and staff in post-acute and long-term care, is doing just that—moving the needle on vaccination rates.