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The nation’s second-largest nursing home has earned a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 5-Star Quality rating.
For more than a decade, skilled nursing providers have seen behavioral health demands explode among their residents.
Connecticut lawmakers are proposing an increase to nursing home staffing mandate, a move that they said would "boost direct ...
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.
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.
Respiratory muscle strength and balance are strong predictors of walking speed in older adults at day care communities who do ...
The Targeted Probe and Educate program aims to lower claim denials, but providers often ask: How did I get here?
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 ...
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 ...
Our industry has been in a seemingly endless crisis-reaction mode, especially over the last five years, in which mainstream ...
Still have questions about whether the federal staffing mandate is alive y’all? Attorneys general in 20 states are working to get you some answers  — but they may not be quick on the draw.
Inappropriate sexual behavior occurs in about a quarter of people with dementia. It can be treated with behavioral ...