Senior living and care represented among Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 14, 2024
Numerous senior living and care-related companies made the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, released Tuesday.
Routine clinical laboratory measures are not biomarkers of long COVID
Aug 13, 2024
No meaningful differences in mean laboratory values were seen between those with a PASC index of 12 or higher versus 0.
Amid ‘overwhelming’ data choices, too many high-performing nursing homes still miss out on referrals:...
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 13, 2024
Skilled nursing facilities earning the highest PDPM rates aren’t necessarily bringing in the most referrals, a new analysis finds.
Sonida Senior Living sees occupancy record, acquires 9 communities
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 13, 2024
Dallas-based Sonida Senior Living saw the highest occupancy in the history of its same-store portfolio and made “considerable” progress on its other growth initiatives, too, in the second quarter,...
Personalized health coaching may improve cognition, lower dementia risk in high-risk older adults
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 13, 2024
Personalized dementia risk reduction intervention plans improved cognition and reduced dementia risk among high-risk older adults in a study detailed recently in JAMA Internal Medicine.
People in the news, Aug. 13
Aug 13, 2024
Appointments, promotions and other news at Anthem Memory Care, Apploi, BHI Senior Living, Cushman & Wakefield, Erickson Senior Living, the Florida Health Care Association, Integral Senior Living, Juniper...
Risks for mortality, adverse heart, kidney events lower with tirzepatide for T2DM
Aug 12, 2024
The risks for all-cause mortality, adverse cardiovascular events, acute kidney injury and adverse kidney events were lower versus GLP-1 RA.
Commonly prescribed antibiotics linked to cutaneous adverse drug reactions
Aug 12, 2024
Sulfonamide antibiotics and cephalosporins are most strongly associated with serious cADRs relative to macrolides.
Age bias declines in the workplace, but work remains
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 12, 2024
Fewer Americans aged 50 or more years believe that “age bias is a fact of life in the workplace” compared with 15 years ago, according to the results of a recent survey. But that doesn’t mean...
Brookdale Senior Living continues pandemic recovery with occupancy, labor improvements
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2024
Brookdale Senior Living’s continued COVID-19 pandemic recovery in the second quarter was highlighted by occupancy gains, improvements in leadership retention and associate turnover, and the implementation...