Summer book release explores AI as a companion to offset loneliness
May 28, 2024
With an international epidemic of loneliness, artificial Intelligence, or AI, may offer technology-based social interaction and companionship. That’s according to robotics expert Tony Prescott, a professor...
Analysis: Government’s planned pay hike insufficient for staffing mandate
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 28, 2024
A proposed pay increase for nursing home operators may be one of the best in recent memory, but it won’t adequately prepare the sector for implementation of the federal staffing mandate, one of the sector’s...
Series on long-term care affordability, staffing, equity a ‘wake-up call,’ industry advocate says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 28, 2024
A special report published last week by CNHI News and the Associated Press that focused on several “issues and complications” in assisted living and other forms of long-term care is a “wake-up call...
Care management improves ROI for dementia-related care costs: study
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 28, 2024
Care management significantly improved healthcare costs, utilization and overall return on investment for Medicare managed-care people living with dementia who were enrolled in one dementia care management...
Senior living market ripe for development, experts say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 24, 2024
The senior living landscape is ripe for development thanks to market fundamentals, extended construction timelines and growing occupancy, according to experts with the National Investment Center for Seniors...
California takes top spot as worst state for retirees
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 23, 2024
California and New York are the worst places for retirees to live, due to rising costs, lack of healthcare options and limited choice of retirement communities, according to data from SmartAsset as reported...
Study identifies factors that predict driving cessation in seniors
May 22, 2024
Older age, female sex and progression to symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease were associated with driving cessation.
Upgraded home care staffing tool aims to help providers better recruit direct care workers
By
Adam Healy
May 22, 2024
Home care agency staffing provider myCNAjobs is unveiling myCNAjobs 3.0, which includes new recruitment features.
Potential rescheduling of marijuana could affect senior living providers, residents
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 22, 2024
A move by the federal government to reclassify marijuana as a schedule III drug could have implications for senior living residents.
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires ‘reasonable accommodations,’ but what is reasonable?
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 22, 2024
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which went into effect in June, requires employers with 15 or more employees to make reasonable accommodations for a worker’s known limitations related to pregnancy,...