Donor-driven scholarship program awards $84,000 to CCRC employees
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 14, 2024
Twenty-four years after a group of residents at Friendship Village of Dublin got together and raised the money to award three $500 scholarships to the community’s workers, the program this year awarded...
Routine clinical laboratory measures are not biomarkers of long COVID
Aug 13, 2024
No meaningful differences in mean laboratory values were seen between those with a PASC index of 12 or higher versus 0.
Dementia care education equips staff to create better interactions, outcomes
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 13, 2024
Senior living communities should invest in dementia care education to better equip staff members with the skills they need to create better interactions and outcomes.
Personalized health coaching may improve cognition, lower dementia risk in high-risk older adults
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 13, 2024
Personalized dementia risk reduction intervention plans improved cognition and reduced dementia risk among high-risk older adults in a study detailed recently in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Prevalence of homebound 22 percent in national Medicare Advantage plan
Aug 12, 2024
Homebound status linked to increased odds of ED visit, inpatient admission, skilled nursing-facility admission, mortality
Age bias declines in the workplace, but work remains
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 12, 2024
Fewer Americans aged 50 or more years believe that “age bias is a fact of life in the workplace” compared with 15 years ago, according to the results of a recent survey. But that doesn’t mean...
Alzheimer’s prognosis models should expand data sources
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 12, 2024
Integrating data from nursing home electronic health records (EHRs) and claims in addition to the minimum data set (MDS) — data required for nursing home residents — could be better than just relying...
COVID-19 continues to affect leading causes of death in US: CDC
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic radically altered the rankings of the leading causes of death in the United States in 2020, and although COVID ranks lower on the list of causes in 2023, its effects continue to be...
LeadingAge applauds HUD’s proposed updates to affordable housing block grant program
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 12, 2024
Members of the Preservation Working Group, including LeadingAge, recently applauded the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s proposal to update program rules for the HOME Investment Partnerships...
Senior living provider program builds community, reputation one social media post at a time
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 09, 2024
A social media ambassador program is helping one senior living operator build community while also increasing its search engine optimization.