How Much Does It Cost? If you and your family are considering a move to a Clare Bridge community, one of the first questions you may be asking is can we afford it? Because our residents are unique individuals, we work together with their families and healthcare providers to design a pers...
Many advanced dementia patients can survive for years without high-tech life-sustaining medical treatment. In lay terms, they have “no plug to pull.” To attain a timely dying based on patients’ lifelong critical wishes, ceasing assistance with oral nutrition and hydration (henceforth,assisted fe...
[13]. VGo was originally designed for communication in business but VGO is now being used in hospital and assisted living communities. Both Giraff and VGo are also being tested in long-term care by the authors of this paper. Long-term care refers to facilities such as nursing homes that ...
11C Pittsburgh compound B (PiB), was developed in 2004 and binds with high affinity to fibrillary amyloid [200]. With the introduction of18F-labelled amyloid tracers (florbetapir, florbetaben, flutemetamol) which obviate the need for on-site cyclotron and radiochemistry facilities...
AD remains so far, an incurable disease [1]. Most of its follow-up by the attending physicians is performed as an outpatient care in primary care facilities with occasional visits to specialised clinics. Its prognosis of clinical worsening may be predicted to a limited extent based on the dise...
Adverse events due to discontinuations in drug use and dose changes in patients transferred between acute and long-term care facilities. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:545–50. Article PubMed Google Scholar Hatziandreu E, Archontakis F, Daly A. The potential cost savings of greater use of home...
What’s the difference between assisted living and memory care? What’s the difference between skilled nursing facilities and memory care? How is a memory care community better for my loved one compared to caring for them at home? Can living in a memory care community cure my loved one? Is...
Nearly every participant was assisted by other informal family caregivers. We plan to evaluate the efficacy of an online coaching program delivered to multiple family members. The informal feedback from our participants has been favorable. The information captured from this methods paper will inform ...
Additionally, societies must provide the much-needed support services and facilities. As such, dementia needs proper and continuous healthcare as patients’ cognitive, physical, and functional abilities diminish over a period of years [6]. It is worth noting that dementia care is time-intensive, ...