Creating spaces for thriving: Designing the active adult environment
By
Darla Esnard
Ryan Miyahira
May 20, 2024
As more individuals seek communities that offer both comfort and enrichment, the concept of active adult living will only continue to gain further momentum.
Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare access to telehealth services must remain a priority, members of a congressional advisory panel said Thursday.
Gender wage gap widens with age
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 10, 2024
“Older women workers — who comprise 47% of the labor force ages 55 and older — are plagued by a gender wage gap that is even larger than the one their younger counterparts experience,” according...
Insurance rates add to financial challenges facing Florida’s assisted living operators
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 04, 2024
The rapid increase in commercial property insurance rates in Florida was the final straw for some senior living providers still struggling with workforce challenges, rising wages and inflation.
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
Most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics so skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation.
Senior living will ‘benefit greatly’ from ‘largest federal investment’ of $244 million in apprenticeships,...
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 15, 2024
The White House has announced the awarding of $244 million in grants aimed at bolstering registered apprenticeship programs across the country.
Long-term care leaders return to basics, employ innovation to grow direct care staff
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, senior living and skilled nursing leaders both are going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to expand their direct...
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...
BAYADA leans on technology, innovation to overcome home health headwinds
May 31, 2024
As home health providers grapple with challenges like workforce shortages and reimbursement pressures, the need for innovative solutions is clear. BAYADA Home Health Care, a nonprofit organization, has...
Dementia with Lewy bodies risk down with α-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists
Jun 19, 2024
The risk for developing dementia with Lewy bodies was lower for men newly started on Tz/Dz/Az compared with those taking tamsulosin or 5ARI.