HHS announces $19 million to build long-term care, acute care nurse workforce
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 18, 2024
The federal government on Tuesday announced $19 million in funding to five schools to help educate nurses to work in long-term care and acute healthcare settings.
Senior living residents use AI to create original children’s stories
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 30, 2024
Affordable senior housing residents are writing and publishing original children’s stories with a little help from information technology and artificial intelligence.
Another state bans employers’ ‘captive audience’ meetings
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 02, 2024
California is the most recent state to ban so-called captive audience meetings, where employers might give speeches that discourage employees from joining unions or that promote that the company is anti-union...
Poisoning death case kicked back to trial court over questions related to arbitration agreement
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 24, 2024
A California appellate court has kicked a negligence lawsuit back to the trial court to reconsider the validity of an arbitration agreement signed by the son of a 93-year-old Atria Senior Living resident...
Senior living leaders to discuss pressing topics Sept. 11 at free virtual event
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 06, 2024
Get insights into how other senior living providers are innovating and addressing challenges when a panel of industry leaders discusses important issues facing assisted living providers — as well as...
Senior living and care fundamentals strengthen in first half of 2024
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 27, 2024
Long-term care fundamentals continued to grow stronger in the first half of the year, and 56% of investors in the sector expect to see little to no change in capitalization rates over the next 12 months,...
Prevalence of obesity 40.3 percent in US from August 2021 to August 2023
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HealthDay News
Sep 24, 2024
A higher prevalence of obesity was seen for adults ages 40 to 59 years than for those aged 20 to 39 years and 60 years and older.
Value-based care, tech, workforce issues among hot topics senior living experts dish on
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 12, 2024
Innovation, technology, affordable assisted living, dementia and memory care, value-based care and workforce issues were among the hot topics senior living experts discussed during a McKnight’s Senior...
PointClickCare launches food service management technology
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 24, 2024
Healthcare technology platform PointClickCare launched Mealtime Solutions, a new food service management system, Sept. 17
Time-restricted eating helps to improve diabetes outcomes
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HealthDay News
Sep 15, 2024
The findings were independent of energy intake and based on an eight-hour eating window, regardless of time of day.