by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Management, Medicine, Skilled Nursing
Nationwide, public and private sector laws and policies to elder abuse and neglect are fragmented and do not sufficiently address a problem that, if left under-addressed, may grow overtime with the number of seniors in the country’s population, two social work authors...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Management, Medicine
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created a tool to report such patient experiences. Patients can visit CMS’ website at http://www.medicare.gov, to compare Medicare programs and hospital providers,...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Management, Medicine
Marrying social work with senior long-term and hospital care will require studying the organization and function of medical programs, health care and economic consequences and outpatient follow-up, four aging healthcare experts at a conference on aging. Four panelists...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine
A White House conference for the first time addressed elder abuse. Greenlee said participants talked about financial exploitation and several government agencies such as her own and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and businesses attended. “Cognitive impairment is at...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine
Connecting supporters of aging in place with advocacy for the disabled is the wave of the future for senior long-term care, government agency chiefs said in a keynote speech at a conference on aging. It will take all the different segments of the senior long-term care...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine, Skilled Nursing
Falls and Loss of Mobility Bacsu added that loss of mobility and falls were other prime concerns. They reflected gender differences and involved no discussion of health care to resolve them. Both worsened respondents’ sense of social isolation, limited activities...
