Newly launched Endeavor Senior Living plans to invest $500 million into properties … Insurer to pay $26 million for insurance law violations affecting long-term care insurance … PA launches investigative...
New OSHA COVID-19 inspection and whistleblower program targets home healthcare, among other providers
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 16, 2021
Home healthcare services are part of a long list of businesses under scrutiny by the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration program.
Greystone closes sale of seniors housing community in Texas
Nov 16, 2015
Spring Creek Village, built in 2013, offers 60 assisted living units and 48 memory care units.
Former CNA pleads guilty to planning sexual assaults of residents
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 07, 2016
A former certified nursing assistant at an Illinois assisted living and memory care community faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of solicitation to commit aggravated criminal...
More news for Thursday, June 24
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2021
New Mexico updates visitation, activity guidance for assisted living communities … Study finds many who arrange caregiving for older adults living with dementia employ potentially unscreened, untrained...
Rural seniors face additional vaccination challenges
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 10, 2021
In late January, healthcare providers in remote Aroostook County, Maine, needed help getting the word out about the COVID-19 vaccine to its 70,000 residents — about a quarter of whom are elderly. They...
More news for Friday, June 18
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 18, 2021
Massachusetts man convicted in attempted arson of Jewish-sponsored assisted living community … Bill extending pandemic health services benefits assisted living communities … Florida no longer tracking...
42% of older adults have a disability: CDC
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 20, 2018
Approximately 42% of U.S. adults aged 65 or more years have a disability, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Research sheds light on how to keep residents active
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 04, 2018
If you want to encourage fitness among residents, one particular type of exercise holds much appeal, according to a new study.
Beach boys – and girls
By
John Andrews
Dec 04, 2018
New Florida community offers all the comforts and amenities of beachfront living for residents who settle in the Wiregrass Ranch section of greater Tampa Bay.