Senior living team can help clarify older adults’ end-of-life wishes
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 04, 2016
Physicians’ Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments, or POLST, forms often are seen as a way to honor the end-of-life preferences of frail elderly individuals when they no longer can speak for themselves....
Business briefs, June 3
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 03, 2022
Portable bed rails recalled after 3 deaths … 87% of Medicare Advantage plans could lose at least 1 star: analysis … Pandemic elevates wellness on senior living’s priority list … Marquis Health...
More news for Monday, Oct. 3
Oct 03, 2022
Former Aegis Living president launches new mental healthcare delivery company for older adults … Life expectancy tool may improve quality of life for those with dementia … Artificial intelligence could...
Aging services provider group supports increased regulation of hospice programs
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 11, 2019
LeadingAge is adding its organizational voice to other industry groups supporting the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s call for increased oversight related to hospice...
Relief bill provisions complicate care for homebound patients
By
Joe Jancsurak
Jan 06, 2021
The $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill signed into law by President Trump Dec. 27 offers Medicare coverage for telemental health and rural hospitals and funding for broadband connectivity, but criticism...
Persistent viral shedding common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
May 13, 2022
Persistent viral shedding is associated with in-hospital delirium and increased six-month mortality.
Delay to admission from ED tied to increase in 30-day mortality
Jan 21, 2022
A statistically significant linear increase was observed in mortality from five hours after time of arrival at emergency department up to 12 hours.
For earlier variants, severe COVID-19 less likely at reinfection
Dec 13, 2021
The odds of the composite of severe, critical or fatal disease at reinfection were 0.10 times that at primary infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Business briefs for Tuesday, Dec. 22
Dec 23, 2020
Nursing homes demanding continued relief from the 2% Medicare sequester cuts through the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic … Harrison Street raises $720M of a targeted $2B investment fund, some of which...
Protection against omicron strongest with hybrid immunity
Jun 17, 2022
Immunity resulting from previous COVID-19 infection and recent booster vaccination confers the strongest protection against the omicron infection.