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.
People in the news, Aug. 13
Aug 13, 2024
Appointments, promotions and other news at Anthem Memory Care, Apploi, BHI Senior Living, Cushman & Wakefield, Erickson Senior Living, the Florida Health Care Association, Integral Senior Living, Juniper...
Meet Sharon Wilson, 2024 Hall of Honor inductee
By
Foster Stubbs
Aug 13, 2024
Sharon Wilson, chief clinical and compliance officer at Cassia in Edina, MN, is a Hall of Honor inductee in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
‘Remarkable year’ so far for Capital Funding Group includes $440 million in deal closings
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 13, 2024
Capital Funding Group closed more $440 million in healthcare bridge loans, HUD loans and other deals in the first half of the year, including millions in senior living and care transactions, the company...
Confidence, savvy about retirement savings a ‘promising sign’
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 13, 2024
With inflation slowly easing, workers are more confident in their ability to reach financial goals in retirement than they were a year ago, according to the results of a survey recently released by Charles...
Business briefs, Aug. 13
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 13, 2024
Confidence in the market for new multifamily housing declined year over year: survey … Home ownership among older adults decreases slightly … OSHA kicks off Safe and Sound Week … 2 SNFs earn AHCA...
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
Risks for mortality, adverse heart, kidney events lower with tirzepatide for T2DM
Aug 12, 2024
The risks for all-cause mortality, adverse cardiovascular events, acute kidney injury and adverse kidney events were lower versus GLP-1 RA.
Substantial disparities seen in cancer cases, deaths among men
Aug 12, 2024
Cancer deaths are projected to almost double by 2050, with more than two-fold increase for older men and low- and medium Human Development Index countries.