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During my 45 years in the senior care field, primarily as a nursing home executive and being active in associations, teaching, mentoring, volunteering and related activities, I have seen a lot. I ...
The nation’s second-largest nursing home has earned a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 5-Star Quality rating.
Respiratory muscle strength and balance are strong predictors of walking speed in older adults at day care communities who do ...
Connecticut lawmakers are proposing an increase to nursing home staffing mandate, a move that they said would "boost direct ...
Our industry has been in a seemingly endless crisis-reaction mode, especially over the last five years, in which mainstream ...
Not surprisingly, lower agency nurse use has reduced expenses. More unexpected, however, is the company’s open embrace of managed care partnerships, which it celebrated for providing an inside track ...
Daily and hazardous drinking among family caregivers of people with dementia was significantly and independently linked with increased odds of abusive and neglectful behaviors, a new study finds.
The Targeted Probe and Educate program aims to lower claim denials, but providers often ask: How did I get here?
Increasing physical activity between the ages of 45 and 65 can help prevent Alzheimer's disease, a report published Wednesday in Alzheimer's & Dementia found.
For more than a decade, skilled nursing providers have seen behavioral health demands explode among their residents.