Regional COVID-19 spikes could spark new facility outbreaks, AHCA/NCAL cautions governors
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 15, 2020
Additional help is needed to keep residents and staff safe as COVID-19 numbers spike and operators simultaneously move to reopen facilities, the industry advocate says.
Hearing loss group applauds feds for adaptive mask guidelines
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 15, 2020
The CDC’s updated guidelines “allow for modifications that can improve communication success for everyone,” says the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, July 15
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 15, 2020
Long-term care pharmacy leaders call for COVID-19 relief from Congress … Elderly with dementia more likely to experience adverse surgical outcomes … COVID-19 symptoms may linger for months … Cardiac...
CMS to deliver ‘point-of-care’ COVID-19 test kits to all nursing homes
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James M. Berklan
Jul 14, 2020
Thousands of nursing homes across the country will be given “point of care” COVID-19 tests by the administration starting next week, officials announced Tuesday.
‘Physicians need to think of COVID-19 as a multisystem disease’
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2020
A review of COVID-19’s effects on human organs shows that a substantial proportion of patients suffer kidney, heart, and brain damage.
Apathy — not depression — helps predict dementia in cerebrovascular disease
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2020
Apathy is a distinct sign of looming dementia in individuals at risk, say researchers. Monitoring patients for this symptom could catch the problem early on, they argue.
Feeding tube placement for Parkinson’s often precedes move to nursing home
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2020
Discussions about percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy for enteral feeding should include information about survival, complications, and the potential need for long-term care, say investigators.
Clinical Briefs for Tuesday, July 14
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2020
Nurses’ union pushes back on calls to reuse N95 masks … Facilities lack sufficient tests to meet COVID-19 recommendations, Senate report finds … Coronavirus vaccine candidates snag FDA’s ‘fast...
Frequent hip-replacement benefit: less back pain
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 13, 2020
Lower back pain resolved in fully 82% of arthritis patients after hip replacement surgery, say orthopedist-researchers.
CDC: More than a quarter of seniors fall each year
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 13, 2020
About 27% of adults aged 65 and older said they’d fallen at least once in the past year. And more than 10% were injured as a result, the latest data shows.