CDC director overrules advisory panel, recommends COVID-19 boosters for healthcare workers as well as...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 24, 2021
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday endorsed boosters of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for long-term care residents and others 65 and older, frontline workers...
Service coordinator salaries present challenges for workers, providers, residents: report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 05, 2023
A new report finds that the average annual salary for full-time affordable housing service coordinators could make it difficult for providers to recruit new workers, could result in residents experiencing...
Welcome to the Age of Misalignment
By
John O'Connor
Feb 04, 2016
If we are to make any judgment about America’s current supply of senior living stock, it is this: Things are seriously out of whack.
Court denies senior living provider’s effort to withhold privileged safety records, citing dual uses
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 08, 2024
Internal investigative documents that senior living and care providers use to help them learn from errors and accidents can’t be held back from trial attorneys if those documents also are used for other...
Evidence for efficacy of antidepressants for pain Is limited
Feb 02, 2023
In 11 comparisons, antidepressants were efficacious, but they were inefficacious or evidence was inconclusive for 31 comparisons.
Suicide mortality decreased from 2018 to 2020 after rising since 2000
Mar 03, 2022
Suicide rates declined for females in all age groups older than 25 years and decreased for males aged 45 to 64 or 65 to 74 years.
For older adults, loneliness ups mortality after nonelective surgery
Nov 16, 2022
No increase was seen in the odds of death at 30 days in association with loneliness for older adults undergoing elective surgery.
More news for Thursday, Jan. 26
Jan 25, 2017
Gene-blocking therapy reverses Alzheimer’s-like symptoms … New bill would increase temp worker protections … Projected $10 trillion federal debt growth over next decade may affect plans...
Air pollution exposure tied to bone loss in postmenopausal women
Mar 08, 2023
The findings were particularly strong between nitrogen oxides exposure and lumbar spine density.
Staffing stability is marker of better quality of nursing homes
Jan 10, 2023
A higher percentage of below-average staffing days was linked to worse quality for licensed practical nurses.