Another VA facility installs camera system to monitor its long-term care residents
By
Aaron Dorman
Mar 20, 2024
A long-term care home for veterans near Chicago has added new monitoring cameras to address issues such as wandering.
Facility staff and families both struggle to figure out processes for dementia patients, report reveals
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 20, 2024
It’s not just family caregivers who face challenges navigating dementia care — the nation’s healthcare workers also said they had difficulties providing care coordination through a complex healthcare...
Caregivers, not just people with dementia, need screenings, interventions for loneliness, study shows
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 20, 2024
Isolation and loneliness are a shared experience and a source of distress not only for people with dementia, but also their caregivers, according to new study findings.
NY assisted living providers hopeful for rate bump for Medicaid-funded program
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 20, 2024
While New York State nursing homes are hoping to make up Medicaid funding shortfalls 16 years in the making, senior living providers are hopeful that a comparable Medicaid increase for the Medicaid-funded...
Foreign policy takes center stage at Westminster Place
By
Foster Stubbs
Mar 20, 2024
Westminster Place hosts a new foreign policy course open to all residents. Find out more and learn how to submit your photos!
Nursing homes struggle with tighter reimbursement environment, expert says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2024
Nursing home funding challenges, capital and private equity firms were among the subjects of a webinar Tuesday sponsored by the Long Term Care Community Coalition.
Well-Spring, Brightspire merge to form Kintura
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2024
The Well-Spring Group and Brightspire, both senior living providers, have signed a binding, definitive agreement to merge, creating a new parent entity to be known as Kintura.
WH budget proposes ‘flat’ funding on some affordable housing programs
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2024
President Joe Biden’s proposed budget promises moderate-level financing of some affordable senior housing programs.
Business briefs, March 20
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2024
OSHA challenge could reach Supreme Court this fall … 90-year-old nursing home guts skilled nursing amid ‘unsustainable’ Medicaid funding … State supreme court rules in favor of Brookdale over contested...
Actions & Transactions, March 20
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2024
Greystone closes $425M healthcare CLO … Commonwealth Senior Living expands footprint in Grand Rapids, MI … Wu, Pressley, Warren cut ribbon on JJ Carroll House in Brighton, MA … Health Dimensions...