It has been a year since I have gone on an activities outing. Since I get to go out on my own, I feel residents who do not should go with activities. Read More »
The best humor here usually comes from night shift. Several days ago a night shift aide came in to tell me that a new male resident was surprised Read More »
Lists? I see lists all the time—top 10s, top 3s and what have you. But one crossed my desk recently that really got my attention: the AARP list of Read More »
It’s spring in Philadelphia as the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) celebrates 20 years of dedication to the field and the people it Read More »
What happens when you get teams from 10 architectural firms clustered in one large room attempting to design four inner city senior housing Read More »
Surgery day went slower than we thought it would. After I registered we learned my surgery was delayed because of an emergency appendectomy. The Read More »
This Recession is finally getting to me. Oops, sorry. The President has asked me not to call it that. Let me start over. This Reverse Prosperity Read More »
State surveys bring butterflies and stress to long term-care staff and administration. In order to survive these events, facilities must design Read More »
When the National Institute of Medicine issued its report to Congress on the condition of the nation's nursing homes as of 1986, few saw the Read More »
The Long-Term Living Web site serves daily news focused on the LTC field. The news feed covers reports and studies, governance, views and news from Read More »
Noting that one in five Medicare patients are rehospitalized after discharge, and three-fourths of these cases could be avoided, the Centers for Read More »
Most nursing facilities will tell families they do wound care, but not all wound care programs are as effective and successful as others. There are Read More »
The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush on February 8, 2006, is a federal law designed to severely Read More »
Medicare has begun a long-awaiting nursing home pay-for-performance demonstration in four states. Nursing homes are being asked to sign up for the Read More »
Data Warehousing PowerCube, from MDI Achieve, is a robust data warehousing program designed to allow users to “slice and dice” data to manage their Read More »
Bob Gatty While organizations representing long-term care services are working hard to convince Congress to include support for long-term care in Read More »
Bed sores, lesions, pressure sores, and chronic wounds are a constant source of worry, not to mention infection, and are enormously problematic for Read More »
When thinking of quality improvement in the long-term care setting, not many areas are more important than the threat of medication errors and their Read More »
Person-centered care (PCC), a part of the culture change movement in long-term care, has been called an “attitude,” a “transformation,” and a “gold Read More »
The culture change movement has taught us so much, causing us to think twice about what we do. We're finding, unfortunately, that many of the Read More »
Ahospice prognosis once meant that seniors who were living in care communities were required to leave that setting for a hospital or hospice Read More »
I started writing this editorial in my head many times. What to say to readers who are “meeting” me for the first time as the new editor of this Read More »
It’s finally May and ‘red flags’ are currently flying half staff. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has delayed enforcement of its identity theft Read More »
For the second time since I have lived in a nursing home I need to have surgery for cancer. The first time was two years ago when I had a mastectomy. Read More »
In order to understand how to design for the boomer generation we must first understand the generational difference between the people currently in Read More »
Effective May 1, the Federal Trade Commission’s ‘Red Flags Rule’ will take effect. The rule is intended to help reduce situations involving identity Read More »
“There is no greater joy than giving your life away.” I've never heard mentoring described in quite those terms, but think about it. When you take Read More »
The steady rain doesn't seem to be dampening the spirits of the conference-goers at the Spring Conference of the American Association of Homes and Read More »
Cancer care has changed over the last several years. Through friends here I have learned that even locally cancer care is housed in one location. Read More »
The Care Transitions Project is a new Medicare program intended to reduce the number of people who are readmitted to hospitals shortly after their Read More »
