Study: Opiates increase hospitalizations for COPD patients
By
John Roszkowski
May 23, 2022
Older adults with COPD who were prescribed opiates had an increased incidence of hospitalization than those who had not been prescribed opiates in the previous month, a study has found.
Study: More frequent reporting after hip, knee surgeries improves outcomes
By
Kristen Fischer
Sep 06, 2023
People who had hip and knee replacements and reported on outcomes had a “small improvement” over traditional post-surgery care, a study shows.
Facility resident gets surprise birthday performance — from the high school band he used to direct
By
Joe Bush
Oct 12, 2022
What a surprise birthday party Fred Batten had.
What emergency docs see: Delirium signals COVID in older patients
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 23, 2020
Almost a third of older emergency department patients who were subsequently diagnosed with COVID had delirium at admission, investigators say. And many had no other COVID symptoms, such as cough or fever.
Older adults with diabetes had worse functional declines during pandemic, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Apr 18, 2024
About 1 in 5 older adults with diabetes who didn’t have functional limitations before the pandemic developed them during that time. The same happened to 1 in 8 of older adults without diabetes, according...
Nursing homes with larger minority populations had 50 percent more COVID cases, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 18, 2021
One state’s careful count of COVID-19 deaths and cases has revealed a strong link between the proportion of minority and ethnic residents in nursing homes and increased facility incidence and mortality...
Nursing homes had ‘substantially higher’ COVID cases, deaths than those in HCBS programs: study
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 09, 2020
Seniors who live in nursing homes were at an increased risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19 compared to those who live in home-and community-based settings during the pandemic’s early months,...
Almost a fifth of SNF nursing aides charged with abuse and neglect had prior convictions, OIG says
By
McKnight's Staff
Oct 10, 2012
Nineteen percent of long-term care nursing aides who were found guilty of on-the-job abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010 had prior criminal convictions, a federal report revealed this week.
Will court allow plaintiffs to ‘Monday morning quarterback’ COVID immunity intentions?
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 29, 2024
An Illinois nursing home has asked the state’s Supreme Court to adopt a broad interpretation of a COVID-19 immunity provision, arguing that the governor “knew how” to include more limitations in...
Private nursing homes had more deficiencies than public counterparts, report shows
Aug 17, 2011
Nursing homes owned by private investors and other types of for-profit operators had more total deficiencies than homes run by public companies, according to a new report.