Long Term Care with Medical Foods
Managing the Long Term Care of geriatric patients using Rx only Medical Foods can be a safe, effective and convenient therapeutic option for clinicians to use in a Skilled Nursing Facility. Rx only Medical Foods can be used to manage the increased nutritional requirements of sleep disorders associated with depression and anxiety, impaired cognition and PTSD, as well as pain syndromes and inflammatory conditions. These FDA regulated products can be taken as an adjunct to a prescription drug or as a standalone therapy. Physician Therapeutics’ Medical foods do not require informed consent, contain ingredients that are Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), and have no reported adverse side effects.
Amelioration of nutritional deficiencies is an important adjunct to pharmacologic disease management especially in elderly patients who are particularly susceptible to sleep difficulties and medication side effects. Nutritional deficiencies are often made worse in the geriatric population due to impaired protein absorption and metabolism. The Medical Food therapeutic option can dramatically improve patient care while limiting the addiction potential of opiate and narcotic medications and avoiding the GI bleeds and adverse cardiac events associated with NSAIDs.
Effective and Safe for the dietary management of disease
- Improve Pain Management without Harmful Side Effects associated with NSAIDs or Opiates
- Improve Time to Fall Asleep (view related trial)
- Improve Restorative Sleep (view related trial)
- Improve Morning Grogginess (view related trial)
- Minimize Pharmaceutical Use and their Harmful Side Effects
Reducing or Replacing Pharmaceuticals in the Nursing Home Can:
- Decrease Sleep Walking
- Decrease the Risk of Falling
- Decrease Confusion and Foggy Thinking
- Decrease Incidence of Stomach Bleeds
- Decrease Risk of Cardiac Events
