Netherlands has nursing homes docs and highly professional nurses but still 40% of total death are in NH in areas where many positive communit cases. It’s the virus not the homes.

Philadelphia nursing homes need help, not blame | Expert Opinion inquirer.com/opinion/commen… via @phillyinquirer

This is absolutely essential.

Great insight into the details of transmission in a nursing home setting.

"#COVID19 in Nursing Homes: Calming the Perfect Storm" Tour de force review of public health, policy, resource and clinical approaches to help nursing homes calm the storm and weather successive ones. By Joe Ouslander and David Grabowski via JAGS: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Masks can help prevent the spread of #COVID19 when they are widely used in public. When you wear a mask, you can help protect those around you. When others wear one, they can help protect people around them, incl. you. bit.ly/3ee8iP4 #WearAMask #DoYourPart #WorldMaskWeek

Fall‐Related Hospitalizations in Nursing Home Residents Co‐Prescribed a Cholinesterase Inhibitor and Beta‐Blocker. #geriatrics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Harms and Benefits of Subcutaneous Hydration in Older Patients: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis. #geriatrics #HAPC onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Billed Advance Care Planning visits were relatively uncommon among Medicare decedents (6.3%), but their occurrence was associated with less intensive End‐of‐Life Care utilization. #geriatrics #palliativecare #HAPC onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

David Grabowski I have no idea how I missed this but this is by far the best thing I’ve read on how to improve NH’s. I’m texting to my fellows. I love the proposal for more clinicians. Isn’t that obvious to anyone else? And wage minimums and pass throughs.

Aged Care Emergency (ACE) program supports nursing homes to reduced hospital admissions and ED visits by 20%. Collaboration between ED, nursing homes, ambulance and primary care is required. #geriatrics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Amen

Incorporating Outcomes that Matter to Older Adults into Surgical Research. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Researchers found that COVID-19 death rates were more than three times higher at U.S. nursing homes with the highest proportions of Black and Hispanic residents, compared to those with mostly white residents. consumer.healthday.com/2-15-race-matt…

We talk with @klharrisonPhD, academic hospice & palliative care researcher, about her essay published in JAMA about coping with personal grief from the deaths of her dad and step-dad within 5 months of each other. Episode bit.ly/GeriPalEP185 - hosts Alex Smith, MD | Eric Widera, MD

Is absence of evidence = evidence of absence in #GeriEM? See #OpenAccess philosophical debate authors.elsevier.com/c/1ebFv_GliwuS… in JEM_Journal EMGeriPearls AGEM The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative AAEM/RSA AAEM American Geriatrics Society UC San Diego Stein Institute for Research on Aging Liz Goldberg MD ScM @katren_tyler Christian H. Nickel Geriatric EM Europe

1 in 6 adults with chronic medical conditions experienced persistent loneliness attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rates were highest among individuals living below the poverty line or identifying as Hispanic/Latinx (where it was 1 in 4). #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

“Hospitals are bad places for #olderadults” Patients aged 75+ report worse care experiences than those 55-74. In JAGS we highlight a need for #geriatric models of care to ensure high quality patient centered care for #older inpatients. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Today, American Geriatrics Society published a new framework for understanding the intersection of structural racism and ageism in healthcare in JAGS #geriatrics #equity #ageism Read more: ow.ly/3qWI50LfGxU

I heard about this trial on the news this morning. The "significant" differences did not look clinically meaningful to me. The relative difference always looks good, but the absolute difference looks very small.