Recruiting and retaining employees always has been challenging, but it is increasingly so. In senior living, executives often scramble to get and keep key positions filled, frantically backfilling openings...
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...
Facing tech inertia? Push vendor partners to ‘move forward’ or move on
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 27, 2024
Providers cannot be so tied to their initial technology investments that they miss the opportunity to innovate or improve workload for their staff, according to a panel of operators and investors.
Radio play mystery turns senior living community into “crime” scene
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Foster Stubbs
Sep 25, 2024
A Fountains of Millbrook resident wrote up a suspenseful script for a radio play that eventually would be turned into a full production in front of a packed house at the community. Find out more and learn...
Innovative volunteer programs enhance engagement, well-being in senior living communities
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Frances M. Hawes, PhD, MS
Lydia O’Hara
Michael Shumacher
Sep 30, 2024
Senior living communities can create effective volunteer programs that enhance the well-being of both residents and volunteers.
SGLT-2 inhibitors may cut dementia risk in patients with diabetes
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Haymarket Media
Sep 03, 2024
The findings show a greater effect with longer treatment, compared with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors.
American Healthcare REIT sole owner of Trilogy after $258 million deal
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 25, 2024
American Healthcare REIT announced late Tuesday that it now fully owns the parent company of Trilogy Health Services after paying approximately $258 million to acquire the remaining 24% minority membership...
Predictive models for HTN screening developed using speech recordings
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HealthDay News
Sep 13, 2024
Accuracies were up to 84 percent for women and 77 percent for men using HTN threshold of SBP ≥135 mmHg and DBP ≥85 mmHg
Diabetes, prediabetes tied to accelerated brain aging
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Haymarket Media
Sep 10, 2024
The association was strongest among men and people with poor cardiometabolic health.
Current national prevalence of diagnosed a-fib, 10.55 million
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HealthDay News
Sep 18, 2024
AF patients became relatively younger over time, were less likely to be female or White, and were more likely to have HTN, diabetes