AHCA / NCAL requests federal intervention to keep LTC sector from ‘verge of collapse’ due to workforce...
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 22, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission should use its authority to protect assisted living and skilled nursing operators, as well as consumers, from direct care staffing agencies “charging supercompetitive prices...
Vaccination cuts risk of severe COVID-19 in patients on dialysis
Jun 01, 2022
There was a reduction in risk of admission and deaths with prior two-dose vaccination versus no vaccination.
5 big issues in senior living in 2016
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 29, 2016
Looking back on our coverage of the senior living industry and the issues that affected it in 2016, several common themes emerge. Five are detailed in this year-end review.
Double-shifts, time sharing and tiers may be part of ‘creative’ approach needed to boost staff recruitment...
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 28, 2021
To recruit new employees into senior care, the key approach is using creativity and offering flexibility, according to Bette McNee, RN, a senior clinical risk management consultant at Graham Company, one...
Investing in private rooms may have prevented nearly a third of COVID-19 long-term care infections, deaths:...
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 27, 2021
Greater investment in proper infrastructure, including private rooms and adequate staffing, likely would have gone a long way in protecting long-term care residents from COVID-19 outbreaks, an international...
Oregon law may prevent operators from mandating COVID vaccines for some workers; Colorado mandates testing...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 27, 2021
Although national long-term care and healthcare groups are backing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for workers, a 32-year-old law might prevent some operators in one state from moving forward on that front....
mRNA COVID-19 vaccine less protective in elderly with comorbidity
Dec 23, 2021
At ≥7 days after the second dose, the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was 69% against infection and 86% against related death.
38 senators call for more Alzheimer’s funding
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 16, 2018
Thirty-eight senators have asked leaders of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and its Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education to make increased funding for Alzheimer’s...
List of companies requiring employee vaccination for COVID-19 growing
By
Lois A. Bowers
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 29, 2021
As leaders in other industries begin dipping their toes in the COVID-19 vaccination mandate waters, the list of senior living providers that have that requirement is growing.
2 ways to help residents combat dementia
Nov 19, 2015
Recently published research from the United States and Australian reveals two ways to slow or prevent cognitive decline.