Meta-analysis: Smoking linked to increased fracture risk for men
Jun 14, 2022
Increased risk was seen using the frequentist approach and Bayesian approach; a significant association also was seen in subgroup analyses.
CMS releases toolkit to speed state efforts to move to home-based services
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 03, 2020
A toolkit from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, released Monday, is meant to help states accelerate the shift to more home- and community-based services for eligible Medicaid beneficiaries.
Incidence of metastatic prostate cancer up from 2010 to 2018
Mar 22, 2022
The incidence rate decreased from 2004 to 2011 among men ≥75 years and then increased from 2011 to 2018.
‘Devastating’: Provider shutters SNF to save assisted living, memory care business
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 15, 2020
As senior living and other long-term care providers speak out about the financial crisis they are experiencing due to the pandemic, one provider is sharing his story about the decision to close a five-star...
Assisted living facility owner arrested for sexual assault of employee
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 30, 2017
The owner of a Florida assisted living community was arrested Thursday after an employee said the man sexually assaulted her at work.
Alzheimer’s resident faces possible homicide charge in roommate death
By
John Hall
Feb 25, 2015
An 87-year old man with advanced Alzheimer’s was being held this week under suspicion of beating a fellow Alzheimer’s resident and roommate to death in a Lakewood, CO, assisted living facility.
Investigators believe resident was killed in assisted living community
By
John O'Connor
Oct 23, 2017
The death of an 84-year-old man in a Pennsylvania assisted living community earlier this year is now being ruled a homicide.
Intervention can cut risk for mobility disability in seniors
May 13, 2022
Reduced incidence of mobility disability seen in older adults with physical frailty and sarcopenia receiving multicomponent intervention
Cholesterol concentrations improved in U.S. adults from 2007 to 2018
Aug 26, 2022
Among adults taking statins, the rates of lipid control were lower for women versus men, Blacks and other Hispanics versus whites.
For many, myocarditis risk higher after SARS-CoV-2 infection than vaccination
Aug 23, 2022
But the myocarditis risk was higher after vaccination for men younger than age 40 years, particularly after the second dose of mRNA-1273.