Worker pleads guilty to embezzling a quarter-million dollars from Indiana senior living community by impersonating CFO … Ohio Legislature considers bill allowing assisted living residents to put security...
LeadingAge calls on HUD to release millions earmarked for affordable senior housing
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 10, 2020
Critically needed COVID-19 relief funds provided by the CARES Act for affordable senior housing are long overdue to ensure the safety of at-risk populations and staff, according to LeadingAge.
Medicare could negotiate drug prices under Democrat proposal
Nov 03, 2021
For the first time, the measure would enable the federal government to negotiate prices for medications covered by Medicare.
Business briefs for Wednesday, Nov. 18
By
Amy Novotney
Nov 18, 2020
Welltower, NHI provide business updates around October rent collection, occupancy … New Hampshire reinstates extra weekly stipend for nursing home workers until end of 2020 … Financial services firm...
Stimulus grants helping Diversicare and NHC withstand pandemic’s decreased revenue and significant...
By
Amy Novotney
Aug 07, 2020
Brentwood, TN-based Diversicare felt the impact of COVID-19 “in a very real way” in the second quarter, recording more than 2,500 positive cases in patients, residents and staff, affecting 56 of the...
$2.9 million study will seek ways to detect dementia earlier
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 04, 2019
Researchers from Florida State University will use a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health to try to discover earlier ways to detect and treat age-related...
More news for Friday, Oct. 9
Oct 08, 2015
Editorial: Assisted living CEO hoodwinked Iowans, investors… ACL announces new federal grants to bolster state Adult Protective Services systems… PHI Vice President Robert Espinoza comments...
Kentucky to implement direct-care worker background checks
Nov 24, 2015
Kentucky soon will require assisted living communities and certain other senior living providers to obtain national criminal background checks on some new employees as a condition of obtaining or renewing...
$625,000 stipend will continue work to alter perceptions of aging, dementia
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 05, 2016
Anne Basting’s work to improve older adults’ quality of life and change perceptions related to aging and dementia recently received a big boost in the form of a $625,000 “genius grant”...
Judge blocks NY vaccine mandate for assisted living, other workers over lack of religious exemption
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 15, 2021
A federal judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking New York state from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers, including workers in assisted living communities, saying...