Focus shifts to short-stay residents to prevent future COVID-19 outbreaks … U.S. COVID vaccination rates to plateau in April, survey results suggest … U.S. hits COVID shot target; 25% of adults now...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, May 27
By
Alicia Lasek
May 27, 2021
Hawaii’s LTC facilities beat mainland trends with 84% staff vaccination rate … Texas governor signs bill that publicizes nursing home and assisted living disease outbreak data… COVID vaccine increases...
Clinical briefs for Friday, Aug. 20
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 20, 2021
ANA survey: Nearly 60% of nurses support mandatory vaccination … Deborah Birx: Long-term care must prepare for, protect against, prevent COVID … Nursing homes must make ‘every reasonable effort’...
Pandemic isolation has led to more falls among seniors, online survey finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 21, 2021
For some seniors, pandemic isolation has created a perfect storm of physical inactivity and deconditioning that has resulted in increased falls risk and greater fear of falling, researchers say.
Docs struggle with making MCI diagnoses, 2022 Alzheimer’s report finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 23, 2022
Less than half of primary care physicians surveyed report being comfortable diagnosing mild cognitive impairment that’s due to Alzheimer’s disease. Fully 90% told researchers that it is “hard...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Aug. 9
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 09, 2021
Feds weigh withholding Medicare funding for LTCFs that don’t mandate vaccines … Physicians report 20% increase in burnout, new survey finds … Treatment of tenacious stomach bug that troubles elderly...
Nearly half of nursing home residents with COVID-19 show no symptoms, national study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 21, 2020
A multi-state study in Genesis HealthCare facilities found that more than 40% of nursing home residents with COVID-19 are asymptomatic. Facility-wide testing was more successful in detecting these lurking...
A medicalized program has increased survival rates and reduced hospital referrals during facility-wide virus outbreaks, researchers say.
Nurses ask feds to invoke Defense Production Act for N95 masks; survey finds ‘unacceptable’ reuse...
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 04, 2020
One in three nurses remain short on supplies, an ANA survey has found. “Re-use and decontamination of single-use PPE as the ‘new normal’ is unacceptable, given the lack of standards and evidence...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Sept. 9
By
Amy Novotney
Sep 09, 2021
Two in 5 vaccinated seniors still don’t feel comfortable socializing with unvaccinated grandchildren: survey … Chronic kidney disease may be overestimated in seniors … Just 1 in 5 very sick older...