by Jennifer Callahan | Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Clinical, Compliance, Wellness
Have you heard of IDDSI? It stands for International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative. It is a framework to standardize terminology and definitions for food textures and liquid thicknesses in order to avoid confusion often created by different names used to...
by Jennifer Callahan | Friday, January 12, 2018 | Clinical, Wellness
More than 13 million people in the United States, male and female, young and old, experience incontinence. 50% or more of elderly people are incontinent. Women are 2x as likely as men to experience incontinence due to women’s health, childbirth, etc. Incontinence...
by Jennifer Callahan | Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | Clinical
An estimated 15 million people in the United States have a current diagnosis of dysphagia, and approximately one million people annually receive a new diagnosis of dysphagia. (McQuaid 2011). Dysphagia is simply defined as difficulty swallowing. Dysphagia can affect...
