Studies highlight increasing dementia deaths, contributing factors to diagnosis and cognitive decline
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 16, 2024
More people are dying from dementia, and location and demographics are among the factors that may contribute to not only a dementia diagnosis, but also to how quickly someone will experience cognitive...
Pandemic challenges raise concerns about assisted living’s ability to care for cognitively impaired...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 15, 2024
Exacerbated challenges faced by memory care assisted living communities during the COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to the increased use of antipsychotics and antidepressants, raising concerns about...
Improving employee onboarding key to engaging, motivating, retaining caregivers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 26, 2024
Employee retention begins with onboarding and training, but onboarding standards for the health services industry — including senior living — don’t look great, according to industry experts.
Centenarians say senior living life helps them age
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 28, 2024
Senior living sales and marketing teams could learn a few things from two centenarians who recently talked about life, bucket lists and their secrets to longevity.
Personalized health coaching may improve cognition, lower dementia risk in high-risk older adults
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 13, 2024
Personalized dementia risk reduction intervention plans improved cognition and reduced dementia risk among high-risk older adults in a study detailed recently in JAMA Internal Medicine.
More news for Wednesday, Aug. 14
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 14, 2024
Update to HUD financing program supports construction of affordable housing … Morning Pointe of Greeneville earns deficiency-free health licensure survey … Lack of purpose, personal growth may precede...
Exercise is key for Parkinson’s relief. But bias, underdiagnosis hold Black patients back
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Elizabeth Cohen, KFF Health News
Aug 19, 2024
A few years ago, the organizers of one of the largest U.S. exercise programs for people with Parkinson’s disease realized they had a problem: Most of the students were white.
CCRC occupancy recovery continues, led by independent living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 15, 2024
Continuing care retirement / life plan community occupancy continued to inch upward in the second quarter, with independent living once again achieving the highest levels of occupancy, according to a report...
Aging in place identified as a top barrier to older adult health: survey
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 22, 2024
Aging in place, transportation access and economic insecurity are the top three social barriers to aging well in America, according to a new survey.
14th annual McKnight’s Tech Awards finalists announced
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James M. Berklan
Aug 22, 2024
Names of the finalists in the 2024 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program were released late Wednesday by program organizers.