Assisted living memory care admission reduces odds of SNF placement, acute care stays, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 07, 2022
Older adults living with dementia who move into memory care units in assisted living communities are less likely to experience a skilled nursing facility or a hospital stay than their peers who move into...
Ensuring right post-hospital destination for assisted living residents requires deeper service knowledge:...
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 03, 2022
Ensuring the best post-acute care outcomes for assisted living residents will require an improved understanding of the long-term care services landscape among hospital clinicians and discharge workers,...
On-site clinics help increase vaccine uptake in assisted living; booster policy focuses on long-term...
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Alicia Lasek
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 01, 2021
Ensuring steady access to COVID-19 vaccines is crucial to maintaining high vaccination rates among assisted living residents and staff members during the pandemic, suggest the results of a newly published...
Women’s retirement security undercut by pandemic job disruption, caregiving tasks and debt: survey
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 18, 2022
As they emerge from the pandemic, women are facing a heavy burden of retirement insecurity due to societal factors that include a persistent gender pay gap, time out of the workforce for caregiving, and...
Require COVID-19 vaccination of all long-term care workers: Experts reach consensus
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2021
The evidence-based verdict from LTC doctors and a range of other specialists: healthcare institutions and facilities — including long-term care facilities — should require that their personnel be vaccinated...