New state laws emphasize dementia training, background check database access
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 22, 2019
S.B. 827 adds dementia training to the continuing education component for physicians and nurses in Connecticut, and S.B. 832 facilitates easier public access to the databases used for background checks...
OIG finds potentially ‘significant’ health and safety issues at HCBS sites
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 17, 2019
Kentucky put at risk the health and safety of some older and disabled adults receiving home- and community-based services through section 1915(c) Medicaid waivers because its annual inspections were “insufficient,”...
Eight charged since March creation of Elder Abuse Task Force, attorney general says
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 15, 2019
Eight defendants have been charged since an Elder Abuse Task Force with industry representation was established in March, according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Senior living operator’s wildfire response inspires abandonment law
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 28, 2019
A bill motivated by a California senior living operator’s handling of an evacuation during wildfires in 2017 was signed into law Wednesday by state Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Jun 25, 2019
Federal law complicates medical cannabis use in assisted living communities … As seniors go into twilight years, some of them privately mull ‘rational suicide’
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Jun 20, 2019
Excessive napping linked to cognitive decline in older men … Florida gives the green light to fully autonomous vehicles … Ziegler Link•Age Fund II invests in K4Connect
Connecticut to become seventh state with paid family and medical leave
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 13, 2019
A bill that will make Connecticut the seventh state with a paid family and medical leave program is on the way to the desk of Gov. Ned Lamont, who has said he will sign it.
Hawaii, Mississippi bookend new list of healthiest states for older adults
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 10, 2019
Hawaii is the healthiest state for older adults, and Mississippi is the least healthy, according to United Health Foundation’s 2019 “America’s Health Rankings Senior Report.” Where does your...
Senior living CEO named director of Oklahoma’s largest state agency
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 07, 2019
Justin Brown, CEO of Choice Capital Partners, the ownership entity for Villagio Senior Living, has been named director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, which has approximately 7,000 employees...
Presidential candidate Klobuchar shares experience with assisted living as Minnesota legislation heads...
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 21, 2019
As legislators in her home state of Minnesota passed a landmark bill related to assisted living and memory care, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, seeking to win the Democratic nomination in the race for president,...