Costs, COVID and slow service cause many older people to postpone emergency care: survey
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 21, 2020
Costs, COVID-19 risk and wait times top older adults’ concerns about seeking emergency care, according to a University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging.
CDC: Mitigation measures, not symptom screening, ‘instrumental’ in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 06, 2020
Symptom screening is of limited use in identifying cases of COVID-19, so mitigation measures could be “instrumental” in preventing an outbreak in independent living and assisted living communities,...
Pandemic has revealed ‘what’s possible’ in home care, OSU Wexner Medical Center leader says
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 26, 2021
When The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) opened in 1834, physicians traveled to patients’ homes via horse and buggy to make house calls.
COVID-19 antibody treatment to be tested on senior living residents, staff
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 04, 2020
Eli Lilly and Co. on Monday announced that it will test a COVID-19 antibody treatment with the help of assisted living and nursing home residents and staff members. The study will enroll up to 2,400 people.
Stable use of antipsychotics in assisted living during pandemic ‘reassuring’: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 04, 2022
Researchers comparing recent prescribing trends of psychotropic and pain medications in assisted living communities and nursing homes said they were reassured by relatively stable patterns despite pandemic...
Society needs to weather tripledemic ‘storm’ to build back immunity: expert
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 22, 2022
As media reports of hospitals being pushed to the brink over the tripledemic of RSV, COVID-19 and influenza dominate, one expert said society will need to “get through the storm” before things will...
Pushing forward and cultivating innovation as the pandemic continues
By
Amanda Young, MS, CMC
May 17, 2021
Stop using the pandemic as an excuse as to why other projects or programs are not moving forward; use it as motivation for innovation and change.
Successfully resolve to increase COVID, flu vaccination in the new year
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 02, 2024
If one of your new year’s resolutions is to increase influenza and COVID-19 vaccination among residents and staff members in 2024, results of a new research study published in JAMA Network Open provides...
Peer-to-Peer: AccordCare, which dropped anchor on East Coast, now has designs on West
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 13, 2021
Starting AccordCare two months before a global pandemic hit was either the best time or the worst time to launch a personal care company with a unique subset in complex clinical care.
CCRC residents ‘significantly safer’ from COVID deaths than older adults not living in congregate...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 02, 2023
SAN DIEGO—Residents of continuing care retirement communities were “significantly safer” from dying from COVID-19 than were older adults living in noncongregate residential settings in the greater...