Agitated – Older Nursing Home Patients – YouTube.mov
Agitated – Older Nursing Home Patients – YouTube.mov – This is Agitated Behaviors in Older Nursing Home Residents, an educational video from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Centers (GRECC). The copyright owner is Professor Nina Tumosa, Ph.D., Co-Director of Gateway Geriatric Education Center and she is with the Dept. of Internal Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at St. Louis University in St. Louis, MO. She has given permission for this video to be posted on YouTube. Avatar created the video to Dr. Tumosa’s specifications and she was the Executive Producer. Dr. Nina Tumosa is a visual neuroscientist who is currently pursuing two lines of research. First, she is doing translational research on assessing the neurocognitive status of aging veterans. Second, she does evaluative research on institutional emergency preparedness for the older person. Other contributors to this series of educational videos include Dr. Joseph Flaherty, MD, St. Louis Univ School of Medicine; Dr. Barbara Kamholz, MD, Durham VA Medical Center; and Sharon Gordon, Psy.D., VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System.
Proposed retirement home in Pittsfield clears first hurdle
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PITTSFIELD — Developers of a proposed 54-bed, $ 10 million retirement home on South Street have cleared the first of four regulatory hurdles. The Pittsfield Community Development Board on Tuesday night, without debate, unanimously approved Berkshire …
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SC cuts long-term nursing–home coverage
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The state health plan will stop providing coverage for long-term nursing home care after June 2013. The change does not affect the 11,000 people who currently have the insurance. And anyone who signs up for the insurance before June would keep it.
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