Volume 17 - Issue 8 - August, 2009 - ALTC
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Steven Christianson, DO, MM, Medical Director, VNS CHOICE and VNSNY Home Care and Joan Marren, MEd, RN, Chief Operating Officer, VNSNY
Steven Christianson, DO, MM, Medical ...
Like others with PTSD, older adults respond to traumatic events with symptoms of reexperiencing, emotional numbing, behavioral avoidance, and increased physiological arousal.
Like others with PTSD, older adults respond to traumatic events with symptoms of reexperiencing, emotional numbing, behavioral avoidance, and increased physiological arousal.
Like others with PTSD, older...
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Studies between blood pressure and cognitive function find that high blood pressure in middle age is associated with cognitive impairment in later life.
Studies between blood pressure and cognitive function find that high blood pressure in middle age is associated with cognitive impairment in later life.
Studies between blood pressure...
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Beth Ann White, MS, ANP-C, CCM, CDE, Rita A. Jablonski, PhD, CRNP, and Sharon K. Falkenstern, PhD, CRNP
Beth Ann White, MS, ANP-C, CCM, CDE, ...
This article reviews and synthesizes the literature pertaining to the identification and care of the nursing home (NH) resident with diabetes.
This article reviews and synthesizes the literature pertaining to the identification and care of the nursing home (NH) resident with diabetes.
This article reviews and...
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Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, Mary Ellen Dellefield, PhD, RN, Gwenmarie Hilleary, FACHE, NHA, Robert Gibson, PhD, JD, Soon Chu, RN, and Nancy Beecham, RNC, FACDONA/LTC
Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, Mary Ellen ...
Facilities that wish to care for patients with HD need to be committed to thinking differently about their clinical management and effect on other patients.
Facilities that wish to care for patients with HD need to be committed to thinking differently about their clinical management and effect on other patients.
Facilities that wish to care for...
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Regardless of what that future is, what model evolves, what definition we use, or what innovative delivery system is invented, our work will always be the foundation of success.
Regardless of what that future is, what model evolves, what definition we use, or what innovative delivery system is invented, our work will always be the foundation of success.
Regardless of what that future...
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The treatment of patients with dementia is often complex and may be fraught with difficult decisions for the physician, care manager, and family.
The treatment of patients with dementia is often complex and may be fraught with difficult decisions for the physician, care manager, and family.
The treatment of patients with...
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