Long-term care leaders return to basics, employ innovation to grow direct care staff
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, senior living and skilled nursing leaders both are going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to expand their direct...
LTC Properties to sell half of its Brookdale Senior Living communities
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 01, 2023
LTC Properties plans to sell approximately half of the 35 Brookdale Senior Living communities it owns and re-lease the other half, Chief Investment Officer and Co-President Clint Malin said Friday during...
Brookdale Senior Living, Pennant, Sabra Health Care REIT and Welltower reported their third-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Here’s a roundup.
Higher alcohol consumption tied to muscle loss
May 30, 2023
The findings were for middle- and older-aged men and women.
53 percent of older women in new survey don’t think their income will last
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 02, 2023
Fifty-three percent of Peak 65 women — those aged 61 to 65 — do not think their retirement savings and sources of income will last their lifetime,
WHO declares global mpox outbreak over
May 11, 2023
The WHO director-general cited a 90% drop in cases during the past three months.
Gaps exist in studying impact of mental health hotlines
Oct 28, 2022
Veteran hotlines typically reached older men.
Posthospitalization meal delivery boosts outcomes for older adults
Jun 28, 2023
The findings were for 30-day rehospitalization and mortality in patients with and without heart failure.
Modifiable risk factors account for many cancer cases, deaths
Jul 15, 2024
40% of all incident cancer cases, 44% of cancer deaths in those ages 30 years and older are attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors.
Series on long-term care affordability, staffing, equity a ‘wake-up call,’ industry advocate says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 28, 2024
A special report published last week by CNHI News and the Associated Press that focused on several “issues and complications” in assisted living and other forms of long-term care is a “wake-up call...