anemia and old age

...hazard ratio for death 1.41 ( 95% CI 1.13-1.76) with anemia from the outset adjusted for comorbidity at 5 years ( CMAJ)

post mortem payments

..if nursing home care is mostly a site based chronic health care model , how could this proposal be described as fair ?

not your average nursing home resident

...Stanley Colson from a nursing home near the Kennedy space centre..

Leas Cross

.....harsh criticism in today's report. How will this watershed case change care?

THE COMMISSION OF INVESTIGATION
(LEAS CROSS NURSING HOME)

Georgetown research

....US slow to develop community services for chronic care. Isn't community development how Obama cut his teeth?

Long‐Term Care in Health Care Reform:
Policy Options to Improve Both

Halifax doctors

.. excellent work from colleague Dr Barry Clarke in Halifax....

Humanity in medicine

.....an elegant essay written from the first hand in the first hand. The current state of affairs is a moral impoverishment of the practice of medicine.....

do you know where your neighbour is?

mmm......this says what about us?

falls & walking aids

...significant rates of falls and injuries in this CDC study , need to redesign walkers..