Medicaid changes could help assisted living help more older adults
By
Joseph DeMattos Jr.
Jun 20, 2023
There is enough room for quality assisted living providers of every size as long as we remain focused on quality and safety, funding and support, adequate and well-thought-out regulation, and better healthcare...
Package of bills targets memory care services, staffing agency regulation
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 06, 2023
Delaware lawmakers took the recommendations from a recently released long-term care task force report to heart in introducing a package of bills that target dementia care and temporary staffing agency...
Assisted living, memory care oversight among task force recommendations
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 02, 2023
Reviewing existing regulations for assisted living communities, expanding state oversight of memory care services and increasing oversight for temporary staff and temporary staffing agencies are among...
A permanent commission in New Jersey will be dedicated to evaluating current systems and making recommendations to improve care for people living with dementia and their caregivers.
Master Plan for Aging adds dementia screening tool for providers
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 17, 2023
Primary care providers in the country’s most populous state have a new screening tool to help them identify cognitive decline in older adults and determine next steps.
Administrator, staff dementia training, exam proposed for assisted living
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 10, 2023
Some assisted living community administrators and state members would be required to undergo training on providing care for residents with cognitive impairment under a proposed bill in the Texas Legislature.
Massachusetts officials reject groups’ call to keep mask mandate after PHE expires
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 10, 2023
Plans to drop a mask mandate in healthcare settings — including residential care facilities — next month are moving forward in Massachusetts, despite outcries from some health professionals and organizations...
Providers would be prohibited from acting as guardians, POAs under proposed bill
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 15, 2023
A bill introduced to the New Jersey Legislature on Monday by state Sens. Joseph F. Vitale (D) and Robert W. Singer (R) would prohibit senior living and skilled nursing providers from acting as financial...
More news for Tuesday, Feb. 14
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 14, 2023
Bipartisan letters promote access to FDA-approved Alzheimer’s treatments … ARPA payments delayed for PA assisted living residences … Healthpeak Properties restructures as UPREIT
Felony charge filed against worker in cleaning solution death of memory care resident
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 31, 2023
An assisted living worker has been charged with felony elder abuse following the August death of a 94-year-old resident living with dementia who mistakenly drank a cleaning solution.