Community doctors now routinely deal with complex psychiatric issues, making tough diagnoses after brief visits and prescribing psychiatric medications for lack of better alternatives.
Marita Smith runs a nursing home in Seattle, while Janet Snipes manages one in Denver. They share painful memories of COVID-19, but have sharply differing...
With the elderly at nursing homes susceptible to breakthrough infections, inoculation of workers is becoming more urgent. After sharp drops in infections, the number of...
After the trauma of the past year, the quarantined are emerging into sunlight and beginning to navigate travel, classrooms and restaurants. And they are discovering...
The reuse of scarce protective equipment when COVID-19 helped spread a different set of drug-resistant germs that prey on the old and infirm.