Nurse practitioners lower emergency visits in one Japanese nursing home, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 03, 2024
One way of dealing with the shortage of doctors in nursing homes is to utilize nurse practitioners, or NPs. A new study looked at the effects of placing NPs in one nursing home in Japan.
Social connections have multiple cognitive benefits for older adults, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Dec 04, 2023
Social connections are vital for older adults, as the interaction is linked to slower cognitive decline. A new study published last week in Alzheimer’s & Dementia examined different types of social connectedness...
Nurse-led geriatric primary care model offers care benefits for seniors
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Kristen Fischer
Dec 04, 2023
A new study found that integrating Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training-Primary Care (GITT-PC) can improve primary care for older adults.
Study: Leadership support yields better job satisfaction for infection prevention workers
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Kristen Fischer
Sep 15, 2023
Leadership support may be just what healthcare workers — and particularly infection preventionists — at long-term care communities need to avoid burnout.
SNRIs or NSAIDs with short-term opioids don’t seem to up delirium risk
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 04, 2023
Adding serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) to short-acting opioids for nonmalignant pain in nursing home residents doesn’t seem to boost their risk for delirium compared with giving...
Noncardiac surgeries don’t raise dementia risk, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 09, 2024
Elective surgeries aren’t associated with a higher rate of dementia among older adults, according to a new study published Jan. 2 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Bilingualism, higher education in life offers some cognitive protection in aging
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 26, 2024
People who are bilingual throughout their lives, and use dual languages in everyday life, have some protection against cognitive impairment, a new study finds.
Bacteria remained after hospital cleaning protocol, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 11, 2024
Attention, long-term care facilities: Routine disinfection wasn’t enough to keep surfaces in hospitals free from pathogenic — and potentially pathogenic — bacteria, according to a new study published...
Report spots care planning gaps for nursing home residents
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Kristen Fischer
Dec 12, 2023
A new report looks at what’s working to help residents in long-term care communities prioritize care planning and advanced care planning, or ACP.
Doing good later in life can protect against cognitive decline, dementia
By
Kristen Fischer
Jul 21, 2023
Volunteering as an older adult — whether it’s mentoring young people, participating in a clothing drive or something that does a little good in the world — is linked to having better cognitive function....