High-touch, flexible care: The ‘secret sauce’ for helping residents age in place
By
Jamie Babcock
May 11, 2023
When partnering with a care model, the program should include five components.
The rise of polypharmacy and ways to prevent it
By
Chuck Benain
Mar 23, 2023
Healthcare practitioners need to be ever vigilant and tactful in managing the many medications used to treat older adults.
Learn how to empower your workforce through tech at the McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo in 2 weeks
Jun 03, 2021
A session titled “Empowering your workforce through technology,” will kick off the fifth annual McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo on June 17. Additional sessions will cover workforce issues and...
5th McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo set for June 17
May 27, 2021
Workforce issues, technology and falls prevention will be highlighted at the fifth annual McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo June 17. Attendees will have the opportunity to earn up to three continuing...
Earn a CE credit April 14 while learning how to managing fall risk in senior living
Apr 02, 2020
Earn a continuing education credit while learning about the forces behind increased fall rates in senior living, as well as risk signs to watch for, at a McKnight’s Senior Living webinar on Tuesday,...
Stanley Healthcare portfolio now includes Foresite Eldercare
Oct 26, 2017
The Foresite Eldercare predictive fall safety and health monitoring solution has become a Stanley Healthcare portfolio solution. Also, Stanley’s Arial Wireless Emergency Call solution has received...
Falls associated with higher rate of adverse events than previously thought
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 07, 2017
Newly published research offers a reason for more urgency for the prevention of falls in senior living residents and other older adults.
Addressing foot pain may help prevent falls, hospitalizations
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 10, 2017
Addressing foot pain in older adults may lead to significantly fewer falls and hospitalizations as well as the maintenance of independence, suggests newly published research from the Hebrew SeniorLife...
Daughter seeks $1.5 million in death of mother after fall at assisted living community
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 24, 2017
A jury trial is set to begin Monday in a case brought by a woman whose mother died after a fall in the Virginia assisted living community where she lived.
Seniors with untreated hearing loss have greater risk of dementia, falls, hospitalization
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 12, 2018
Older adults with untreated hearing loss have a greater risk of dementia, depression, falls, hospitalization, rehospitalization and ER visits, according to newly published research.