ADL, cognitive needs higher for home health recipients in assisted living than in other settings
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 30, 2019
Assisted living residents who receive services from home health agencies are more likely to have cognitive and activity of daily living impairments than people receiving home care in other settings, according...
Green House 2.0 offers memory care approach outside of network
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 23, 2019
The 15-year-old Green House Project will make its “Best Life” dementia care training and education program available to memory care, assisted living and skilled nursing providers operating outside...
Utah’s Silver Alert program to go into effect later this year
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 09, 2019
Utah’s Silver Alert program, designed to help locate older adults with dementia who are missing, was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert on March 21 and is expected to go into effect later this year.
Moving more may help older adults maintain memory, study finds
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 18, 2019
Staying active in old age may help memory and thinking, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
How dementia care has changed, and where it is headed
By
Christine Kovach, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Nov 12, 2018
The 25th anniversary of the Helen Bader Center at Ovation Communities has prompted a look back on past dementia care and thoughts about where future studies will take us.
U.S. News launches ‘Best Senior Living’ program
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 07, 2021
U.S. News & World Report has launched a “Best Senior Living” initiative with the goal of releasing inaugural listings for consumers in the first quarter of 2022. The program will cover individual...
An open letter to senior living community staff: Thank you
By
Mike Barnes
Sep 19, 2022
Most of us who are adult children with aging parents are kind of in the dark. Thank you to everyone in the senior living field whose work enlightens us and eases our minds.
More news for Monday, June 28
Jun 28, 2021
DA reverses plans to seek death penalty for alleged senior living serial killer … FDA grants breakthrough therapy designation to donanemab and lecanemab for Alzheimer’s … Vapors from alcohol-based...
Construction, renovation plans outweigh buying, selling in 2017: survey
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 14, 2017
Senior living construction and renovation projects, especially in assisted living and memory care, are on the rise, whereas efforts to buy or sell existing properties have waned, according to the findings...
Senators call for more Alzheimer’s funding
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 06, 2017
Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and 10 other senators, in a bipartisan letter Friday, urged President Donald Trump to increase current funding for Alzheimer’s disease research...