Long-term care owners and providers are engaged in an ongoing struggle to maintain solvent facilities and provide quality care while dodging waves of Read More »
The Jerry & Dolores Turco Medical Rehab Center LINCOLN PARK, NEW JERSEY PROJECT SUMMARY Type of Facility/Setting: Short-Term Rehab Facility Owner: Read More »
It's been 10 years since the Drug Enforcement Administration briefly mentioned in a Federal Register notice that long-term care nurses are not Read More »
Note: This feature is a digest of an article that won this past September's “2010 GE Award For Best Research Paper” from the National Investment Read More »
The October 1, 2010, implementation of the MDS 3.0 came with a few hiccups for directors of nursing (DONs) and their staff members to address. Read More »
After being at this facility for a few months, the only wanderer I encountered was an elderly female resident with dementia who wants to find an Read More »
In the past few years we have seen a steady increase of “Main Street” concepts for assisted living and continuing care retirement communities. They Read More »
Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane at peak strength, made landfall in the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. The hurricane caused massive Read More »
Nursing home provider Golden Living has established an in-house consulting pharmacy company—Golden Clinical Rx Services—which will focus on improving Read More »
*This article was updated on December 10 to reflect changes to RUG-IV implementation. Congress approved a bill Thursday morning that would prevent Read More »
Earlier today, NPR broadcasted the findings of its Investigative Unit’s analysis of nursing home data from the Department of Health and Human Read More »
As everyone else in the office spent today’s lunch gazing out at the impenetrable whiteness smothering Cleveland, I was happily sidetracked Read More »
MILWAUKEE—Northwestern Mutual released this week its “2010 Cost of Long-Term Care” study, which examines costs for home healthcare providers, Read More »
A dear friend of mine called last week looking for answers. Her 75-year-old father, having battled melanoma for the past year, had fallen at home and Read More »
Philadelphia-based ACTS Retirement-Life Communities reached a milestone recently by surpassing more than $1 billion in total assets. The achievement Read More »
Real estate investment trust Ventas, Inc., announced this week that it has completed the acquisition of 58 private-pay senior living communities from Read More »
While half of women at age 65 will likely live beyond age 85, 92% of female retirees and 89% of female pre-retirees do not plan far enough in the Read More »
I grew up in a house that had small closets circa 1900. They were approximately 40 inches wide and we learned to strategically hang and frequently Read More »
After reviewing the stark contrasts in carriage rates of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in several California nursing homes, Read More »
Memory difficulties such as those seen in dementia may arise because the brain forms incomplete memories that are more easily confused, new research Read More »
IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc., a national hospitalist physician group practice company, has acquired Senior Care of Colorado, PC. Senior Care of Read More »
One fourth (27.8%) of individuals purchasing long-term care insurance during the first half of 2010 who were under age 61 pay less than $1,000 a Read More »
Editor’s note: Long-Term Living welcomes Frieda Stewart, RN, DON, to our team of bloggers. Frieda brings a wealth of long-term care knowledge and Read More »
The Coalition to Protect Senior Care, a national association composed of frontline long-term caregivers and association stakeholders, this week Read More »
