An examination of analytics reveals which business challenges were top topics of interest for McKnight’s Senior Living website visitors, newsletter readers and social media followers and friends...
AARP: 70% of adults on dementia drugs take them longer than appropriate
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 21, 2018
Seventy percent of adults who take medication for dementia are taking the drugs longer than deemed appropriate by clinical evidence, increasing the potential for adverse health outcomes and generating...
NIH asks for $414.4 million more for Alzheimer’s research
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 01, 2016
The National Institutes of Health will need $414.4 million more than its base appropriation for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in fiscal year 2018 if it is to meet the research goals of...
Senior living community not cited, but two years later, executives charged in resident’s death
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 25, 2017
The owner and former administrator of a California senior living community have been charged with elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter, felonies, more than two years after a resident reported to have...
Study suggests ways senior living can optimize care for residents with dementia
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 07, 2019
A new study examining the differences between residents with moderately severe dementia who live in residential care settings, such as retirement communities and assisted living, and those who live in...
Actress advocates for public health measures to fight ‘insidious, cowardly’ Alzheimer’s
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 20, 2018
Public health measures related to Alzheimer’s got a boost Tuesday from the testimony of actress Marcia Gay Harden at a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing focused on what she called “an...
Antipsychotics study proves value of reduction efforts, leaders say
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 22, 2015
Findings of a new study on the use of antipsychotic medications reinforce the necessity of initiatives aimed at reducing the off-label use of the drugs, researchers and industry representatives say. More...
Glen Campbell remembered; documentary to air Wednesday
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 08, 2017
Wednesday, HLN will broadcast an encore presentation of “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me,” the network announced hours after Campbell’s death on Tuesday. The documentary has a special...
AMDA resolution calls for ‘comfort feeding’ of certain residents with dementia
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 13, 2019
Members of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine should adopt a policy of “comfort feeding” for certain residents with dementia rather than honor advance directives that indicate...
Recent experience confirms that stand-alone memory care communities are ‘insufficient,’ Thrive executives...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 12, 2019
As the Thrive Senior Living name disappears from real estate investment trust LTC Properties’ portfolio, the Atlanta-based operator said Tuesday that it is a good time to step away from stand-alone memory...