New data: With no booster, nursing home residents face 30 percent higher COVID risk
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 29, 2023
Nursing home residents who have received the COVID-19 bivalent booster shot are 30% to 50% less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 than their fellow residents who haven’t gotten boosted, the...
Nursing home ‘avoidable transfer scale’ prevents unnecessary transitions in pilot study
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 18, 2022
A tool called the Avoidable Transfer Scale enables nursing homes to outsource quality improvement work related to potentially avoidable hospitalizations, researchers say.
Geriatricians weigh value of newer advance care directives for nursing home residents
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jun 02, 2022
In a new editorial, specialists ask whether Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment lead to high-quality care for residents.
Six years after mandate, most of state’s nursing home residents had POLST forms
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
Mar 14, 2022
By 2016, 81% of California’s long-stay residents and 68% of short-stay residents had physician orders for life-sustaining treatment recorded in the MDS.
Seniors’ sense of smell weakens, but not their enjoyment of food, researchers find
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 13, 2021
The sense of smell declines with age, but this loss doesn’t happen across the board, a new study shows. The findings may help care providers improve the meals and dining experiences of older adults in...
Resident hospital transfer forms: The 5 most useful pieces of information
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Alicia Lasek
May 12, 2021
The creators of a new automated hospital transfer form say they have identified the five must-have pieces of information needed to reduce clinical complications when nursing home residents are brought...