Nursing home care providers were able to more smoothly adopt evidence-based pain management guidelines when they had the support of pain management champions, a study in Sweden has found. A pain ...
Susie Singer Carter’s mom, Norma Pecora, suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for 16 years and spent the last five years of her life in a nursing home. She died at age 89 after enduring sepsis, ...
While nursing home residents suffer from pain, anxiety and other distressing symptoms, they are unable to communicate their discomfort due to cognitive impairments. With electronic health records ...