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The Key to Compliance: Belief in the Treatment
Modern medicine isn’t generally described as an act of faith, but now gerontology nursing expert University of Missouri Assistant Professor Todd Ruppar says that beliefs play a very large role in compliance with doctors’ orders. Ruppar found that because patients…
Tags: Compliance, health care, LTCAdministrator.com, medication, patients, research
Low Staffing Rates Increase Mortality Risk
Low staffing rates can be thorn in the side of facility administrators, but a new study shows that they may also be to blame for increased risk of death from norovirus (acute gastroenteritis) in nursing homes. A recent study looked…
Tags: Assisted Living, health care, health care facilities, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, Medical News, research
Coordination of Care Offers Opportunities for Providers
Watching the Olympic opening ceremonies, it would be difficult to miss the fact that the UK chose this very public stage to celebrate, of all things, their healthcare system. It is hard to imagine such a thing happening on US…
Tags: Business, health care, Home Care, Hospitals, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, nursing homes, research
Your “Off Day” May be the Day to Get to the ER
What can you do to detect a heart attack early on and prevent fatal results? Too Many symptoms of a heart attack go unrecognized or are often overlooked by the patient as an ‘off’ day. Innocuous looking symptoms include, indigestion,…
Tags: exercise, health care, heart disease, Heat Attack, Hospitals, research, seniors
It takes a Virtual Patient to Make a Healthy Village
So now there’s a new, safer way to test medical procedures by creating “virtual patients”, computerized realistic-looking models that are “serviced” by medical devices and procedures that can’t be tested in “vulnerable” patients, such as pregnant women. Dr. X. George…
Tags: Dr. X. George Xu, health care, Medical News, radiation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, research, virtual patients, Wall Street Journal
Old Age or B12?
A mind blowing discovery recently printed in the New York Times by Jane E. Brody, indicates that a B12 deficiency can show similar symptoms to someone with Alzheimer’s. She shares an evocative story of Mrs. Katz, who was diagnosed with…
Tags: Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia, dementia, health care, Medical News, research
Oui! The More Languages You Know The Better Off You Are!
Recent studies found that trilingual people have a significantly lower risk of cognitive impairment than those who are bilingual. According to Magali Perquin, PhD, of the Public Research Center for Health in Luxembourg – “It appears speaking more than two…
Tags: Bilingual, Cognitive Impairment, dementia, Luxembourg, Magali Perguin, Public Research Center for Health, research, Trilingual
Make Sure The Family’s Involved
Post-stroke recovery and function can be significantly affected by the involvement of patient’s nearest and dearest. New research shows that incorporating family-assisted exercise therapy to the standard physical therapy regimen of a stroke patient had many positive results. Motor function,…
Tags: balance, Emma Stokes, exercise, Family, Ireland, motor function, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Post-stroke recovery, research, Trinity College Dublin
Count Your Blessings Daily… To be Physically & Emotionally Fit
It seems pretty obvious, and most of us have known this all along, but now science has come to back it up with hard data – be thankful, it’s good for you. According to findings published in a recent Wall…
Tags: cognitive behavioral therapy, emotional, grateful, gratitude, physical, positive psychology, psychological, research, Wall Street Journal
Need a New Hip? Check the Joint Registry First
806,000 hip and knee implants were performed in the US in 2007 – that’s double the amount done a decade earlier. However, a 2007 study demonstrates that 7% of Medicare patients who underwent a hip replacement required another replacement hip…
Tags: Aging, Health Care, research, seniors
