title: Clinical update on nursing home medicine: 2014.
abstract: This is the eighth yearly update on clinical care in the nursing home. Topics covered this year are heart failure, delirium, nutrition, hospice, diabetes mellitus, frailty, and sarcopenia.
authors.affiliation: Section of Geriatric Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Messinger-Rapport
authors.affiliation: Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: Julie K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Gammack
authors.affiliation: Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: Milta O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Little
authors.affiliation: Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Electronic address: morley@slu.edu.
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Morley
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003693:Delirium / Q000451:nursing; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000451:nursing; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing; D006738:Hospices / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D009736:Nursing Process; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000451:nursing; D055948:Sarcopenia / Q000451:nursing
keywords: Heart failure; delirium; diabetes; frailty; hospice certification; hospice regulations; nutritional support; oral supplementation; prognostication; sarcopenia