Revising Healthcare Goals for the Older Patient: And why the therapy goal of ‘previous level of function’ doesn’t go far enough. The decline of older patients is well documented, with each subsequent injury or illness creating a new, and lower baseline. Many healthcare providers are trained to think in terms of helping a patient get…

Half of all patients in hospitals and healthcare facilities are malnourished, leading to unnecessary suffering, poorer quality of life, and increased mortality. Despite available solutions, malnutrition is underdiagnosed and undertreated globally. A review in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights this issue and calls for greater use of existing knowledge to address it. The…