title: Clinical practice in nursing homes as a key for progress.
abstract: With the aging of the world's population there has become a major need for the development of nursing homes throughout the world. While some countries provide high quality care for the disabled elderly, in others this is not the case. Education of a medical director has been shown to improve the quality of the nursing home. Physicians need to have knowledge of how to implement continuous quality improvement and culture change. Key medical issues include moving to a restraint free environment, subsyndromal delirium, behavioral disturbances, weight loss, pain management, pressure ulcers, falls, hip fractures, polypharmacy, depression and frailty.
authors.affiliation: Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA. morley@slu.edu
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Morley
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards*; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000193:education*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D011787:Quality of Health Care
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