Home health earns top scores in key quality reporting measures
By
Adam Healy
Aug 21, 2024
Home health achieved the best results in two quality measures: discharge to community and Medicare spending per beneficiary.
Better physical health, higher education lowers an assisted living resident’s risk of transfer to a...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 21, 2024
Better physical health and a college education are among the leading factors that could lower an assisted living resident’s risk of transferring to a nursing home later in life, according to new study...
Senior living construction booms 11 percent, fueled by surging demand
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 21, 2024
Senior living construction has surged 11% since last summer, with public sector projects outpacing the private sector in the first half of the year.
This week could bring FDA approval of fall COVID-19 vaccines
Aug 20, 2024
The approval comes much earlier than last year, when autumn shots were announced in mid-September.
AI off-label tool can correctly exclude pathology in chest radiographs
Aug 20, 2024
The AI tool exhibited ≤1.1% critical misses at sensitivities of ≥95.4%.
Mindfulness-based interventions via telehealth beneficial for chronic pain
Aug 20, 2024
Pain interference scores were significantly lower with group and self-paced mindfulness-based interventions among veterans.
Psychological well-being declines years before diagnosis of MCI
Aug 20, 2024
The findings were seen specifically for the components of purpose in life and personal growth.
Severe menopause symptoms tied to cognitive impairment
Aug 20, 2024
The authors say that the findings show the interplay between hormonal, lifestyle and sociodemographic factors and cognitive health.
Improving workplace can lower assisted living nurse turnover rates, decrease burnout
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 20, 2024
Understanding the factors that contribute to burnout among assisted living nurses can drive interventions to ease high turnover rates, according to an expert in the field.
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Aug 20, 2024
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