Skipping tech over price tag an ‘opportunity lost’ for hesitant nursing homes
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2024
While it remains difficult to quantify how investments in technology are paying off, some skilled nursing providers say they are buying into more options because today’s margins don’t afford them missed...
HUD awards millions in ‘green’ funding to 17 affordable senior housing communities
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 26, 2024
Seventeen affordable seniors housing properties will receive funding ranging from $2.4 million to $20 million, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday as it makes available a...
Concerns of Listeria contamination prompt nationwide ice cream recall
Jun 25, 2024
Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in frail or elderly people as well as young children.
Cannabis use tied to risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU admissions
Jun 25, 2024
The findings persisted even after considering cigarette smoking, vaccination status, comorbidities and other risk factors.
New York unveils animatronic pet, intergenerational game initiative to combat loneliness
By
Foster Stubbs
Jun 25, 2024
The New York State Office for the Aging will deliver 4,725 animatronic pets and games to older adults through the state’s aging network. The move is part of phase 6 of its animatronic pets initiative...
Public/private coordination could improve care delivery for affordable senior housing residents in MA...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 25, 2024
With more than half of all affordable senior housing residents now enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans, a new report from the federal government says that coordinated service and healthcare delivery...
People in the news, June 25
By
Eliza Mattson
Jun 25, 2024
Appointments, promotions and other news at The Aspenwood Company, Brookdale Senior Living, Ebenezer Senior Living, Grace Management, the Granger Cobb Institute, Invesque, The Jewish Home Family, Juniper...
Hospital nursing resources tied to COVID-19 survival
Jun 24, 2024
“If all hospitals in the study had superior nursing resources prior to or during the pandemic, models estimate many thousands of deaths among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 could have been avoided,”...
When it comes to nation’s older adults, ‘affordable housing matters’
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2024
Low-income older adults are spending record amounts of income on housing. That’s one takeaway message that LeadingAge Senior Vice President of Policy Linda Couch said she has from a report released Thursday.
Triglyceride-glucose index independently linked to all-cause mortality
Jun 21, 2024
Association with in-hospital and one-year mortality seen for patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease