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Assisted Living Facilities: Choose Wisely, Choose Well

Certain truths are anything but self-evident. This is the case when trying to discern truth from fiction and marketing from […]
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Depression is the No. 1 Under-Treated Illness in the Geriatric Population

According to the American Geriatrics Society 40% of nursing home residents are affected by depression, yet depression often goes undiagnosed […]
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The Importance of Family Advocacy

This past week I met with a distraught mother and father at a long-term acute care facility in San Diego. […]
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Getting Maintenance Therapy Covered by Medicare

In 2014 in the landmark case of Jimmo v. Sebilius, the practice of denying Medicare coverage for skilled care solely because […]
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New Centers for Disease Control’s Guidelines for Opioid Use in Chronic Pain

According to the CDC, from 1999 to 2014 opioid prescriptions have quadrupled and over 165,000 people have died from prescription […]
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A Care Manager’s Insight: NEW Glass Slipper for a Brave Cinderella

Over the years, I have taken care of countless patients (women especially) who have been rendered paralyzed and speechless by […]
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A Care Manager’s Insight: Elderly Monks are Brothers’ Keepers

The Abbot at the Monastery was then 93 years old. Besides one fall a couple of years ago, which broke […]
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Winter in The Aging Soul

According to research published recently in the Journal of American Medical Association, not only do physicians under prescribe for pain, […]
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Featured Writer Robin Curry: Avoidable Perils- Losing my Mother

This month we share a very personal story by our guest writer Robin Curry. The story of Robin’s mother’s death is […]
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