Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from May 1986

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from May 1986

What do your customers want? Three marketing tools answer the question.
May 1, 1986... What Do Your Customers Want? Three Marketing Tools Answer the Question Marketing books, journals, and articles provide us with detailed, highly-focused definitions of the term marketing. When you get right down to it, we can define...

Assessing "need" in CON proceedings. (Certificate of Need) ( column)
May 1, 1986... Assessing "Need" in CON Proceedings The typical health-planning regulation appears straightforward on the surface. Applicants seeking approval for capital expenditures invloving Medicare or Medicaid sevices are instructed to submit notices...

Digitalis drug interactions. (digoxin and related drugs) (includes references)
May 1, 1986... Digitalis Drug Interactions Digoxin is perhaps the most deadly yet most prescribed drug used in long-term-care facilities. The tragic paradox is that the durg has been discontinued in two-thirds to three-fourths of LTCF patients receiving...

Aging myths: reversible causes of mind and memory loss.
May 1, 1986... AGING MYTHS: Reversible Causes of Mind and Memory Loss. We can look forward to living well into our 90 s and certainly even to 100 years, provided we do not accelerate the aging process with illnesses that we can prevent. That is a...

National Academy of Sciences report on nursing home regulation. (Committee on Nursing Home Regulation in the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences)
May 1, 1986... National Academy of Sciences Report on Nursing Home Regulation WASHINGTON -- The Committee on Nursing Home Regulation in the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, issued its report in mid-March. The 415-page paperback book is...

The physician and the hopelessly ill patient: legal, medical and ethical guidelines.
May 1, 1986... THE PHYSICIAN AND THE HOPELESSLY ILL PATIENT: Legal, Medical and Ethical Guidelines. If all of us were lucid up to the moment of our deaths, this book would not be needed. The right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment is well...

Use of puppets in a residence for the elderly. (Hermitage Methodist Home, Richmond, Virginia)
May 1, 1986... Use of Puppets in a Residence For the Elderly Abstract Creative Arts Coordinator Janice McMurray, on the staff of the Hermitage Methodist Home in Richmond, VA, uses puppets as a communication tool with elderly health-care patients....

The living will in action. (Florida Supreme Court defines procedures) (includes references)
May 1, 1986... The Living Will in Action It is appropriate to report the living will in action, following discussion of it in the September/October column, "Should We Enact 'Death with Dignity' Legislation or 'Natural Death' Acts?" In a unanimous...

Memory fitness over 40.
May 1, 1986... MEMORY FITNESS OVER 40. One of the fears that most haunt us as we grow older is the loss of memory. The misplaced keys, the name forgotten, or the train of thought lost are all seen as ominous portents of even greater decline and...

Joint program of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital-Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged. (for of care of the elderly)
May 1, 1986... Joint Program of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital/Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged A program in New York City jointly sponsored by a distinguished medical school and an equally prestigious nursing home could prove to be a turning point...

Advertising prescription drugs to consumers?
May 1, 1986... Advertising Prescription Drugs to Consumers? The possibility of advertising prescription drugs to consumers bripngs up many ethical questions, as reported in Marketing News. The elderly, who constitute 25 percent of prescription drug users,...

Is long-term-care insurance really on the way? (a pioneering project by Metropolitan Life)
May 1, 1986... Is Long-Term-Care Insurance Really On the Way? When my wife and I were "interviewed" recently to determine whether we are eligible for long-term-care insurance, we believed that we were one step closer to achieving complete financial...

Warning re Tonocard.
May 1, 1986... Warning re Tonocard Astra's (Sweden) tocainide (Tonocard) antiarrhythmic has caused 16 deaths from blood dsycrasias, as reported in SCRIP. Tonocard is used to treat ventricular arrythmias and myocardial infarction. Its indication has been...

A nursing home's plight with ORGS: is restructure necessary? (includes references)
May 1, 1986... A Nursing Home's Plight With Orgs: Is Restructure Necessary? Since the introduction of ORGs in 1983, much has been written about this new method of prospective reimbursement and its intent to control the escalating cost of Medicare...

Professionals' perceptions of priorities in long-term care. (includes references)
May 1, 1986... Professionals' Perceptions of Priorities In Long-Term Care General unanimity of opinion exists concerning the growth of the elderly population, particularly persons over 75, and the consequent increasing need for long-term-care services....