Brain changes after COVID ‘real’ and prevalent, researchers tell clinicians
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 16, 2022
New evidence shows that COVID-19 can have long-term, adverse impacts on brain health — even after mild illness. Clinicians should take note, experts say.
5 top factors influence hearing aid use in patients with dementia
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 28, 2022
Adults with dementia require multiple supports to optimize the use of hearing aids, from help with fit to social reinforcement, investigators report.
Early tracheostomy may not improve lives of stroke patients discharged to SNFs
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
May 16, 2022
The strategy of early tracheostomy, compared with a standard approach, did not significantly improve survival without severe disability at six months, investigators say.
This board game shows what dementia is really like — and it’s no game at all
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Kristen Fischer
Oct 02, 2023
A new board game highlights the challenges that people face receiving dementia care and aims to get people talking about how to improve it.
Medicare’s outpatient knee replacement policy tied to more surgeries, less access: study
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 06, 2023
Medicare’s 2018 policy change supporting outpatient total knee replacement may have led to more surgeries and higher costs, while unintentionally limiting access to older, Black and female patients,...
CDC’s opioid prescribing update recognizes seniors, people with dementia
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 07, 2022
Past prescribing guidance for adults with chronic pain had been interpreted as inflexible in the context of the opioid epidemic. The new guidance supports “individualized, patient-centered care,” the...
Small building proponents embrace Biden’s nursing home overhaul plan
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 07, 2022
The proposed phase-out of multiple-occupancy rooms is crucial to helping prevent uncontrolled infectious disease outbreaks, the Green House Project says.
More than 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses await use in long-term care
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 05, 2021
Two weeks after nearly 2.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses were distributed to U.S. states for use in long-term care, approximately 280,000 residents and staff members have been vaccinated.
CDC: Seniors had lower COVID-19 immunity than rest of population in 2022
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 05, 2023
The findings highlight the importance for adults aged 65 years and older to stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccination and have easy access to antiviral medications, researchers say.
New data: Healthcare-linked infections increased in 2021
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 16, 2022
Healthcare-associated infections have remained above pre-COVID levels in acute care settings, according to a federal progress report.