Long-term home oxygen therapy reduces mortality and improves quality of life for hypoxemic patients with respiratory disease. Four randomized controlled trials have helped establish the indications... Read More
Prevalence of pain, particularly severe disabling pain, is greater in the older adult population than in the general population.[1,2] Research suggests that pain-related disability may be due to a... Read More
Dementia is a devastating illness for both patients and their families. A patient with dementia has memory loss and at least one other impairment: aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, or disturbance in... Read More
Diabetes mellitus is a major metabolic disease with known poor health outcomes and significant costs to the individual and the health care system. It is one of several chronic disabling disorders on... Read More
Urinary incontinence (UI) is the involuntary loss of urine. In residential care it is extremely prevalent, affecting over half of all residents.[1] Costs associated with UI have been estimated at $5... Read More