Only 17 snowy miles from the Canadian border, Katie Bushey's most basic needs are met by traveling health aides who come into her home to change her diapers, track her seizures, spoon-feed her fettucine Alfredo and load her ...
Mar 20, 2017
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A tailored preventive oral health intervention significantly improved the cleanliness of teeth and dentures among elderly home care clients. In addition, functional ability and cognitive function were strongly associated ...
Mar 1, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Nurse practitioners could meet the growing need for house calls to frail, elderly Americans, but restrictions in some states may get in the way, according to research published recently in the Journal of the ...
Feb 7, 2017
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In a study to be presented Friday, Jan. 27, in the oral concurrent session, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, researchers will present their findings for a study titled, Pregnancy ...
Jan 23, 2017
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Popular medical dramas such as Grey's Anatomy and Chicago Med often depict the tensions that can arise while making end-of-life medical decisions without "advance directives" on file. Advance directives, or living wills, ...
Jan 17, 2017
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A leading dental academic and clinician from Plymouth University, Professor Elizabeth Kay MBE, has played a key role in a draft quality standard to improve oral health in care homes and hospitals published today (Friday 6 ...
Jan 6, 2017
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The likelihood of an elderly patient falling in a nursing home, developing a wound or receiving inappropriate treatments are things that can be predicted, based on thousands and thousands of other cases. But how could a doctor, ...
Jan 6, 2017
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As soon as possible after a stroke, a critical step is to eliminate the clot that caused it. While the current standard of care is to use "clot busting" tissue-type plasminogen activator drugs, recent studies have shown greater ...
Jan 4, 2017
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Just 20 conditions make up more than half of all spending on health care in the United States, according to a new comprehensive financial analysis that examines spending by diseases and injuries.
Dec 27, 2016
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1 million older Americans depend on nursing homes for their health care. The 16,000 nursing homes in the United States serve populations of all sizes; ...
Dec 13, 2016
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