Antidepressants have small benefit for pain, function in OA
Nov 29, 2022
However, total adverse events occur more often in patients receiving antidepressants versus placebo.
Donor-driven scholarship program awards $84,000 to CCRC employees
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 14, 2024
Twenty-four years after a group of residents at Friendship Village of Dublin got together and raised the money to award three $500 scholarships to the community’s workers, the program this year awarded...
2007 to 2019 saw increase in inflation-adjusted healthcare spending
May 29, 2024
From 2007 to 2019, the medical burden increased from 23.5 to 26.4% for low-income families and from 5.4 to 6.5% for higher-income families.
Outpatient care has shifted toward more specialist care for Medicare recipients
Nov 01, 2021
“We find that during the past 20 years, healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries is increasingly fragmented across several physicians, mostly specialists, with little change in annual engagement with...
Women of Distinction 2021: Denise Chadwick Wright
Jul 22, 2021
Denise Chadwick Wright, CEO of Birmingham Green, Manassas, VA, shares what it means to be a Women of Distinction honoree, when she knew the eldercare field was right for her, her biggest accomplishment,...
Members of ‘sandwich generation’ stealing from their futures to pay for care for aging parents
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 27, 2019
Costs related to caring for aging parents may mean that many members of the “sandwich generation,” who also are taking care of their children, may not have enough funds for their own care when it comes...
Walnut intake linked to modest decrease in LDL cholesterol in seniors
Aug 30, 2021
Significant decreases were seen in total cholesterol, LDL-C and intermediate density lipoprotein cholesterol, with no increase in weight.
More sitting tied to greater death risk in older women
Feb 29, 2024
The findings were seen for both all-cause and cardiovascular death.
Meet Amanda Tilton, 2024 Hall of Honor inductee
By
Foster Stubbs
Aug 12, 2024
Amanda Tilton, chief nursing officer at BAYADA Home Health Care in Pennsauken, NJ, is a Hall of Honor inductee in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Polypill not linked to reduced cognitive decline in seniors
Jan 30, 2023
But a polypill with or without aspirin is associated with reduced functional decline for those aged 65 years or older with cardiovascular risk factors.