CMS Says Transfers to Pooled Trusts Subject to Transfer Penalties for those over Age 64.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued [...]
Antibiotics and Alzheimer’s Patients
About 50% of Alzheimer’s patients receive antibiotics in their last [...]
New Alzheimer’s Report
As many as 5.2 million people in the United States are living [...]
Alzheimer’s Disease and Statin Drugs
New research says that taking cholesterol-lowering (statin) drugs, offers no [...]
CMS is keeping regional offices
Contrary to the Federal Register notice of Dec. 28, 2007, [...]
Education and Alzheimer’s Disease
“Higher levels of education delay the onset of dementia, but [...]
Caregiver Stress
A new study suggests that caregiving, especially for difficult patients [...]
Family Care-giving Valued at $350 Billion in 2006
Family caregivers provide essential, life-sustaining and dignity-enhancing care to their [...]
Erroneous Refunds to Medicare Part D beneficiaries must be repaid.
A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the Medicare Part [...]
Antipsychotic Drugs Increase Risk Of Death In Older People With Dementia
It has long been a concern that the use of [...]