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I Advance Senior Care is the industry-leading source for practical, in-depth, business-building, and resident care information for owners, executives, administrators, and directors of nursing at assisted living communities, skilled nursing facilities, post-acute facilities, and continuing care retirement communities. The I Advance Senior Care editorial team and industry experts provide market analysis, strategic direction, policy commentary, clinical best-practices, business management, and technology breakthroughs.
I Advance Senior Care is part of the Institute for the Advancement of Senior Care and published by Plain-English Health Care.
I Advance Senior Care is part of the Institute for the Advancement of Senior Care and published by Plain-English Health Care.
Sunrise launches blog for seniors, caregivers
Sunrise Senior Living announced last week the launch of a new blog aimed at providing online resources to seniors, their family caregivers and other Read More » Former Florida nursing home ombudsman sues state
Florida's former nursing home ombudsman, who was ousted in February by new Gov. Rick Scott for reportedly clashing with providers, has filed a Read More » Adapting to nursing home life through small changes
A recent reader comment on my blog asked me to share long-standing changes I have made to adapt to life in an LTC facility. I have previously written Read More » Alzheimer’s symptoms more subtle in people over 80
A new study suggests that the relationship between brain shrinkage and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease changes across the age spectrum, especially Read More » Long-term trends continue in nursing care
Amid lackluster second quarter economic data and increasing uncertainty about future economic growth, nursing care fundamentals through 2Q11 (and in Read More » HCR ManorCare to appeal $91.5 million verdict in negligence suit
HCR ManorCare Inc. will appeal a recent $91.5 million verdict after a jury found one of its units to be negligent in the care of an 87-year-old woman Read More » Researchers urge hospitals to purchase pressure-reducing mattresses
Hospitals that invest in pressure-redistribution foam mattresses in the emergency department could save money by reducing the frequency of pressure Read More » S&P places nursing homes on CreditWatch; the Alliance calls for end to cuts
Action taken last week by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, which placed all six of its rated issuers in the nursing home sector on watch for Read More » Memory care: Private vs semi-private rooms
“Should memory care residents be in private or semi-private rooms?” This is the question I often get asked by architects and owners new to memory Read More » Nursing home administrator arrested for fraud, kickbacks
Federal and state agents with the Office of Inspector General Office of Investigations and Texas Medicaid Fraud Control Unit last week arrested a Read More » Dealing with obsolete adaptive technology
Computers have been a godsend for me. As a quadriplegic, I can do some typing, but a normal keyboard is too large for me to reach all the keys. Read More » What your team needs to know about the COT OMRA
At the end of July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the “Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Read More » Alzheimer’s blood test 96% accurate, developers say
A group of scientists out of New Jersey say they have developed a blood test that diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease with unprecedented accuracy. The Read More » Beneficiaries in Medicare’s ‘donut hole’ saved $461 million in first half of 2011
Almost 900,000 Medicare beneficiaries who hit the Part D prescription drug “donut hole” this year have already saved an average of $517, or a 50 Read More » AHCA’s Parkinson: Medicare cuts will push SNFs to ‘tipping point’
Any automatic 2 percent cut to Medicare as a result of congressional debt negotiations will “disproportionately impact elderly residents and the Read More » Current generation of antidepressants increases health risks for elderly, study finds
Older people taking new generation antidepressants are at greater risk of suffering from falls and fractures, among other serious conditions such as Read More » Debt deal passes; door left open on Medicare cuts
The U.S. Senate by a vote of 74 to 26 passed a bill Tuesday raising the federal debt ceiling, narrowly averting a government default that would have Read More » Florida applies to overhaul Medicaid into managed care system
Florida officials applied to the federal government on Monday with an official request to transition the state’s Medicaid program to managed care Read More » Beating the facility’s heat
Over the last week or so the temperature each day has been in the 90s and the heat index over 100 degrees. When I was young, I barely noticed these Read More » Providers estimate lost revenues in response to FY2012 SNF payment cut
Several skilled nursing and senior living chains released Monday preliminary estimates of lost revenue in light of last Friday’s final rule (PDF) Read More » CMS to cut SNF payments by 11.1%
Medicare will cut skilled nursing facility payments by 11.1 percent, or $3.87 billion, starting October 1, under a corrective proposal the federal Read More » GAO: Medicare spent $48 billion on improper payments in 2010
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports an estimated $48 billion in Medicare improper fee-for-service payments in 2010, representing about Read More » Healthcare expenditures continue to rise
By 2020, healthcare spending will catapult to $4.6 trillion dollars as projected in a new report from federal actuaries. It predicts that from Read More » LTC in Italy: Seniors living La Dolce Vita
Healthy seniors living the good life. On a recent trip to Italy, I decided to actively investigate how Read More » Medicare Part D reduces admissions to SNFs, hospitals
A new study finds that Medicare’s prescription-coverage program cuts healthcare costs since the benefit results in reduced admissions to nursing Read More » The joy of hiring great caregivers
Hiring is often a flip of the coin. In my experience, we strive to hire great people and often they are less than desirable. But every once in a Read More » Lowering readmits through transitional care
Discharge, readmit, discharge, readmit. It’s the healthcare cycle many seniors are trapped in as they age and/or their disease process runs its Read More » Hospice care grows as do patient negligence concerns
While the for-profit hospice industry is growing and thriving, concerns about withholding appropriate care for dying patients are increasing as well, Read More » Subsidizing wages at LTC facilities could cut turnover
Subsidizing low-wage caregivers at group homes would likely reduce worker turnover rates and help contain costs at long-term care facilities, Read More » 