Skip to main content
Families with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients Share Their Stories
My grandma lives in a nursing home in upstate New York. I live in Tennessee, so I don’t get to see her often. I was fortunate to be able to take my kids to visit her this summer.
Families with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients Share Their Stories
A summer day in 1980 started off like any other day when my grandmother was visiting. Mom and Dad went to work and Grandma took me to the dentist office—not unfamiliar territory.
Families with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients Share Their Stories
I have a journal with ‘tidbits’ of things I remember to write down. Recently, someone from Choices, the Commission on Aging, was at my house for an evaluation. She asked Mom her name and after some time I repeated the question.
Families with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients Share Their Stories
My grandfather was really good at covering up my grandmother’s disease. But after he passed away, we noticed little things like how she had moved the cake plate to an odd place to cover a large hole she had burned into the counter tops.
I believe that healthcare quality and Healthcare Quality Week (Oct 18-24) likely mean very different things to people depending on their age, experiences and expectations. Some might say that healthcare quality is ensuring a safe, affordable accessible system of care. Others might suggest that healthcare quality simply means that your doctor and staff are
Providers often dread the “doorknob moment” when patients voice a major concern at the end of a visit. In a series of videos from the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare
I’ve recently been reading Edgar Schein’s book Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling. In it, Schein talks about how asking questions empowers the other person in the conversation and temporarily makes the asker vulnerable.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced promising results of the first shared savings performance year for the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative. This model is part of our broader effort at CMS to promote better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.
In 2014, CPC practices showed positive quality results, with hospital readmissions
The 2015 Healthy Aging Summit, which took place July 27-28, 2015 in Washington, D.C., explored the many ways researchers, providers and stakeholder organizations are encouraging healthy lifestyles and improving the delivery of preventive services
September 11th is the National Day of Service and Remembrance. Americans will unite in community service to commemorate the remarkable public service done after the 9/11 attacks. atom Alliance encourages you to serve your favorite charity on this day.