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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.
Black People Less Likely to Have Advance Care Directives
A recent government study of nursing home and hospice patients shows a significant gap between white and black people having advance care Read More » How many residents have computer access?
Ever since I began using the Internet while living in a nursing home, I have wondered how many other residents are online. I myself have been online Read More » NIC’s seniors housing update
As of 3Q10, occupancy in nursing care properties across the largest 31 metropolitan markets was 88.5%, which is down 0.6 percentage points from the Read More » Pandemic Flu Planning Guide for Nursing Homes Released
A complimentary planning tool is now available to help the nation’s nursing homes prepare for an influenza pandemic. The new resource is courtesy of Read More » U.S. Health Spending at Historically Low Rate of Growth
Healthcare spending in the United States grew 4% in 2009, to $2.5 trillion, or $8,086 per person—the slowest rate of growth in the 50-year history of Read More » Researchers Find Tablet Splitting in Nursing Homes to be an Inaccurate Practice
Medical experts have issued a warning about the common practice of tablet splitting after a study found that a large percentage of split pill Read More » Valuable lessons from your CNAs
One of the things I love best about being a DON is, if I take the time to listen, I can learn great lessons from my certified nursing assistants. Read More » Nursing Home Residents with Mental Illness Less Likely to have Advance Care Directives
Researchers examining a national sample of more than 13,500 nursing home residents found that those with serious mental illness were 24% less likely Read More » Senior Living Company to Partner with Businesses, Offer Community Discounts
CRL Senior Living Communities announced today a new corporate partnership program that will allow companies to offer a family discount on long-term Read More » Electronic Health Records Not Always Linked to Improved Quality
Use of electronic health records by hospitals across the United States has had only a limited effect on improving the quality of medical care, Read More » GPO Managed Health Care Associates Acquires Navigator
Managed Health Care Associates, Inc., a group purchasing organization (GPO) serving healthcare providers and specifically long-term care pharmacies, Read More » Why are hand washing sinks still required by code?
Over the past few years, alcohol dispensers along with hand washing sinks have become the standard in most healthcare settings. To a large extent it Read More » Seniors-Focused Joint Venture between GE, Intel Now Operational
GE and Intel Corporation today announced the title of their healthcare joint venture, “Intel-GE Care Innovations LLC,” or Care Innovations for short, Read More » PharMerica Acquires Texas Based LTC Pharmacy Company
PharMerica Corporation, a national provider of institutional pharmacy and hospital pharmacy management services, has acquired the assets of Lone Star Read More » Strange occurrences in my room
It was very important for me to have a working computer when I came here. My sister set it up quickly, but it had to be makeshift: there’s only one Read More » Just the FAQs: Skin care, incontinence
ABOUT CLINICALLY SPEAKING Clinically Speaking addresses clinical topics of interest to the long-term care community, such as skin care and Read More » Actively managing technology
David Oatway, RN, MPH The technology required in long-term care must be actively managed. The time has passed when allowing the computer systems Read More » Voices and choices
Several years ago, while attending a meeting of a local woman's club, the oldest in the group, who was nearly 85 years old, said something very Read More » Monitoring tech: Trending upwards
In a study last year that garnered a surprisingly small amount of buzz, BCC Research reported that the global market for elder care technology Read More » Evidence-based design for dementia
There is growing evidence that the design of the built environment, by itself and in combination with organizational policies and procedures, has a Read More » Words matter
At the Erickson School, our mission is to educate a community of leaders who will improve society by enhancing the lives of older adults. Our Read More » Mechanics of a labor investigation
As noted in the September 2010 issue of Long-Term Living (“Old law-New problem,” p. 32), the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division has Read More » Supply Side
Fall Management Crest Healthcare Supply's Fall Fighter Fall Management products include a String Monitor, Bed and Chair Monitors, along with sensor Read More » Welcome to Cybertherapy
Did you know that a staggering 69% of the world's almost seven billion people play video games where players of all ages enter a virtual environment Read More » Congress Passes Section 202 Housing Reform for Seniors
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, announced earlier this week the passage of S.118 under Read More » Long-Term Living Takes Holiday Break
With the glut of major holidays nearly upon us, Long-Term Living will not be publishing news or blogs during the week of December 27-31. We’ll be Read More » Alzheimer’s Expert Killed in Hit-and-Run
CLEVELAND—Mark Smith, 45, co-editor of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and executive director of the American Aging Association, was killed Sunday Read More » Nursing home resident support: 12-step telephone meetings
The saying in 12-Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is that alcoholism is a three-fold disease: physical, mental, and spiritual. The Read More » More Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Seek Hospice Care, Use It Longer
More nursing home residents with dementia are seeking a hospice benefit and using it longer, according to a new study of records on more than 3.8 Read More » 