Seniors keep a ‘leash’ on life Don Picciano, Jr. When people over age 55 decide that it's time to downsize and move to an active adult community Read More »
Horticultural System StandUp Gardens provides year-round indoor and outdoor horticultural experiences for residents. Because they move easily Read More »
Bob Gatty The long-term care industry is now facing an 11.1 percent Medicare payment reduction to SNFs for 2012 in new rates to be implemented Read More »
Corporate executives, administrators and other SNF professionals are doubtful that proposed Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will benefit Read More »
Linda Buettner PhD, CTRS/LTR, FGSA In the months leading up to the implementation of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0, and since the time of its Read More »
Everyone needs a good sounding board. For many nurses, that forum is oftentimes a listserv. In commemoration of last year's big MDS package, Read More »
Facility staff empathizes with the pain and discomfort of the resident with incontinence, but they frequently do not have the opportunity to discuss Read More »
The recently announced 11.1 percent reduction in Medicare payments to skilled nursing facilities, which takes effect October 1, will cost the sector Read More »
A majority of nursing home workers across the country feel that their residents are well cared for and safe, according to a new report by the Agency Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Amid lackluster second quarter economic data and increasing uncertainty about future economic growth, nursing care fundamentals through 2Q11 (and in Read More »
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 »
Hospitals that invest in pressure-redistribution foam mattresses in the emergency department could save money by reducing the frequency of pressure Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
At the end of July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the “Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Read More »
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 »
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 »
Any automatic 2 percent cut to Medicare as a result of congressional debt negotiations will “disproportionately impact elderly residents and the Read More »
Older people taking new generation antidepressants are at greater risk of suffering from falls and fractures, among other serious conditions such as Read More »
Hubert H. Humphrey, the 38th vice president of our increasingly un-United States, believed some crazy things. One of them was that the moral test of Read More »
Increased competition is a challenge for providers in all segments of the LTC industry. The growth in competition requires that providers communicate Read More »
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 officials applied to the federal government on Monday with an official request to transition the state’s Medicaid program to managed care Read More »
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 »
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 »
