Advisors can think ahead of time about the common issues that clients face and how to address them; this can take shape in the form of a health care checklist. Along with the obvious financial ...

Are you prepared for the possibility of needing long-term care in the future? This may include care in a nursing home, an assisted living facility or home health care. According to the ...

Healthcare professionals create care plans to help manage conditions such as pulmonary embolism. Planning may help improve outcomes and prevent future occurrences of the condition. Care plans are an ...

Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

The Minimum Data Set (MDS) has been a driving force in many areas of the long-term care sector of healthcare for nearly 30 years. Beginning as an assessment tool to drive the care plan process, and ...

During a medical emergency or a serious illness or at the end of life, questions may arise about a patient’s medical treatment and how their care team should proceed. In instances where the patient is ...

How to measure faculty clinical activity in a comprenhesive cancer center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

People with dementia are legally entitled to have a say in their treatment but are rarely included when it comes to their care planning, according to a review of research. There are around 1 million ...

The figures are bracing: About half of people turning age 65 will require some type of paid long-term care in their lifetimes. Women will need 3.7 years of care, on average, while males will need an ...

Thinking about the future makes Courtney Johnson nervous. The 25-year-old blogger and college student has autism and several chronic illnesses, and with the support of her grandparents and friends, ...