Long-Term Care

As their parents age, many of our physician clients have asked us about long-term care insurance.

HOUSTON — Natural language processing could reduce the need for manual chart reviews to determine a patient’s risk for carrying or being infected with multidrug-resistant organisms, according to a study.

Older ICU survivors had a higher likelihood for filling new and persistent sedative prescriptions when placed in a long-term care facility following ICU discharge, according to results published in CHEST.

BOSTON — Mechanically ventilated patients in long-term care facilities are far more likely to be colonized by Acinetobacter baumannii and Candida auris than those in acute-care facilities, a study found.

Despite an overall positive safety outlook, the scope of potential toxicities related to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy remains unclear due to lack of long-term follow-up.

SAN DIEGO — Physicians should emphasize the importance of diet and lifestyle change in patients with MS and consider home environment, cultural challenges and other factors when making recommendations, a presenter noted at ACTRIMS 2023.

Like their patients, physicians often become more concerned about long-term care coverage as they age.

Long-term services and support are critical to older Americans facing frailty, disability and other age-related complications, and the demand and cost of this care is expected to increase in the coming years, according to the ACP.

HHS has announced funding of approximately $15 million for a 3-year federal grant to establish a program to strengthen behavioral health care for residents in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

Long-term care facilities in the United States have a high burden of norovirus outbreaks, which result in a significant number of deaths and hospitalizations, according to CDC surveillance data.