Several years ago, I saw the visiting eye doctor at this nursing home for examinations and prescriptions. I never liked the styles of frames
Read More » Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a process of creating an environment in which administration, healthcare workers, and ancillary staff
Read More » To maintain or increase occupancy, most nursing homes are looking for ways to improve the satisfaction of residents and their families. In that
Read More » The number of elderly individuals is increasing. By the year 2025, there are expected to be more than one billion persons over the age of 60 years
Read More » The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Aid and Attendance pensions are non-service-connected pensions, which are for veterans whose disability or
Read More » At a glance… The author provides strategies and resources to help wound care professionals with documentation and assessment. Properly
Read More » The big news this summer and fall is the conversion of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) process from the MDS 2.0 to the MDS 3.0 and the
Read More » AT A GLANCE Besides promoting resident-centered care, the new Resident Interviews in the MDS 3.0 will ensure greater accuracy of the information
Read More » At a glance… Providers with effective and dynamic leadership in an atmosphere of resident-directed care are likely to be the ones to experience a
Read More » AT A GLANCE Instead of Resident Assessment Protocols, MDS 3.0 will be using Care Area Assessments for more in-depth assessment. There are some
Read More » After living here for a few months, I discovered we had some wonderful volunteers. A retired gentleman came every other weekday to read parts of
Read More » At a glance… Through dedicated staff training, assembling these “pieces of the puzzle” yielded many facility-wide benefits. Village Nursing Home
Read More » The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) has been a leader in the development of clinical practice guidelines for the care of
Read More » At a glance… The idea behind aquatic fitness equipment is to make rehabilitation easier by duplicating the exercise movements in water, but with
Read More » Food entertainment is becoming “center of the plate” for many senior living communities. From exhibition culinary displays to healthy eating advice
Read More » Long-term care providers are bracing themselves for substantial change pending the arrival of MDS 3.0, slated for October 1 of this year. While
Read More » Our last column touched on the importance of respect—and the importance of creating a respectful environment for all residents, families, and staff.
Read More » Recent discoveries about the health of active brains have many implications for people as they age. We now know that the mind, like the body's
Read More » At a glance… Long-term care providers must ensure that their skin tear procedures and practices reflect the current literature and clinical
Read More » My mom and her good friend, Marion, just returned from their annual weeklong winter cruise in the Caribbean. Their adventure ended with some
Read More » The call to Jamaica, New York-based Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center comes from an excited father. “I have a new baby boy!” the
Read More » For many nursing home and assisted living residents, living with medical diagnoses and their related treatments poses less of a challenge than
Read More » The words “MDS 3.0” undoubtedly trigger a number of disparate thoughts in a director of nursing's (DON's) mind. This is going to be a year of
Read More » Denise Nix Vicki Haugen What is incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD)? Perineal dermatitis, recently relabeled incontinence-associated
Read More » In late 2008, I was grappling with the problem of trying to prioritize in-house and continuing education training programs for our 100 therapists
Read More » At a glance… The Skin Changes at Life's End panel has compiled a consensus statement. Ten statements were issued concerning geriatric skin meant
Read More » What is the prevalence and incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)? Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are one
Read More » At a glance… Some basic changes to the MDS in version 3.0 resulted in very significant alterations in the method for calculating the RUG-IV
Read More » The proportion of individuals 65 and older is increasing in the United States, and so is the burden of chronic illness and disability.
Read More » At a glance… Technology now holds promise for compliance with some of the new CMS interpretive guidance (effective June 12, 2009), for several of
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