Population-level interventions cost-effective for reducing risk for dementia
Aug 01, 2024
The interventions could reduce the risk factors for dementia, resulting in a cost-savings and a gain in quality-adjusted life years.
Plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s neuropathy linked to dementia risk
Aug 01, 2024
Significant associations were seen for all Alzheimer’s disease plasma biomarkers in late life with late-life dementia.
COVID-19 vaccination may increase risk for urinary tract symptoms
Aug 01, 2024
A higher proportion of those who received a single dose versus three doses had to urinate five or more times in the night.
Key strategies for a happier senior care team
By
Richard Birke
Aug 01, 2024
Managing a diverse workforce in the challenging environment of long-term care requires a high degree of leadership skill. Residents’ and patients’ lives, and the quality of their lives, depend...
Shortening senior living sales cycle contributes to longer length of stay
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 01, 2024
Showing prospective residents the value of moving into a senior living community sooner rather than waiting can have a tremendous effect on a community’s length of stay statistics, according to a sales...
Two bills that aim to renew the nation’s commitment to healthy aging and funding Alzheimer’s research have unanimously passed in the Senate.
Aegis Living CEO Dwayne Clark on the past, present and future of senior living
Aug 01, 2024
Dwayne Clark, founder, chairman and CEO of Aegis Living, shares how senior living and Aegis Living have changed over past couple of decades, insights into attracting staff members and residents, and thoughts...
Meet Ruth Katz, 2024 Hall of Honor inductee
By
Josh Henreckson
Aug 01, 2024
Ruth Katz, incoming president and CEO at Association of Jewish Aging Services in Rockville, MD, is a Hall of Honor inductee in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Job growth in the private sector slowed in July for the fourth consecutive month, with the addition of 122,000 jobs, according to the monthly ADP National Employment Report Economy Lab report, published...
Business briefs, Aug. 1
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 01, 2024
CMS increase abilities to fine nursing homes, hikes Medicare pay by 4.2% … CMS gives hospices payment bump of 2.9% for FY 2025 … USCIS to conduct second random selection for H-1B cap registrations...