JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 7 , Pages 460-475, September 2008

Clinical Update on Nursing Home Medicine: 2008

  • Barbara J. Messinger-Rapport, MD, PhD, FACP, CMD

      Affiliations

    • Cleveland Clinic, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Cleveland, OH
    • ,
  • David R. Thomas, MD, FACP, AGSF, GSAF, CMD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
    • ,
  • Julie K. Gammack, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
    • ,
  • John E. Morley, MB, BCh

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
    • GRECC, St. Louis VAMC, St. Louis, MO
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to John E. Morley, MB, BCh, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1402 S. Grand Blvd., M238, St. Louis, MO 63104

In 2007 we provided an overview of clinical advances in the nursing home based on a series of presentations at the American Medical Directors Association.1 This will now be a regular yearly series. Topics covered this year are nutrition, exercise, diabetes mellitus, lipids, hypertension, pressure ulcers, COPD, and osteoporosis.

Keywords: Nutrition, exercise, diabetes mellitus, lipids, hypertension, pressure ulcers, COPD, osteoporosis

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PII: S1525-8610(08)00264-8

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2008.07.006

JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 7 , Pages 460-475, September 2008

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