While some pressure injuries are unavoidable, most can be prevented. An effective way to prevent these injuries is by moving the patient frequently.

If you have a pressure injury, nutrition becomes especially important. Make sure you are consuming the top 5 nutrients for wound healing.

You or your senior may need to increase your calorie and protein intake if you have lost weight or are having trouble gaining weight.

Although there is no special diet to cure incontinence, some foods and beverages may contribute to bladder leakage. Learn more about diet and incontinence.

In this video, Amy Long Carerra, MS, RD, goes through the steps of how to gravity feed, and gives tips to make the process go smoothly.

Gravity feeding is a way to deliver formula through your feeding tube. With this feeding method, formula flows out of a bag and into your tube by gravity. This method is slower than feeding with a syringe and uses a roller clamp on the bag’s tubing to control the rate. Most people who gravity feed take a… Continue reading Tube Feeding: How to Gravity Feed

In this video, watch Shield HealthCare's Registered Dietitian's show viewers how to bolus feed , also known as syringe feeding.

Bolus feeding is a type of feeding method using a syringe to deliver formula through your feeding tube. It may also be called syringe or gravity feeding.

To assist with the transition to ICD-10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed an easy ICD-10 Code Lookup tool. Search by Dx description...

In this video Laura takes us through different positions for sleeping with an ostomy. She discusses pain reduction and many other helpful tips!