Food program stokes recollections from residents facing memory loss
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 23, 2024
A dinner party involving cherished family recipes is being used by one senior living service and care organization to connect with their residents with dementia and memory impairment.
More news for Wednesday, Sept. 11
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 11, 2024
Falling for financial scams might be early Alzheimer’s signal … New Mexico did not ensure attendants were qualified to provide personal care services: HHS OIG … Assisted living business director...
Studies highlight increasing dementia deaths, contributing factors to diagnosis and cognitive decline
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 16, 2024
More people are dying from dementia, and location and demographics are among the factors that may contribute to not only a dementia diagnosis, but also to how quickly someone will experience cognitive...
More news for Monday, Aug. 8
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 08, 2022
$25 million in COVID-19 payments will support 211 long-term care organizations … As long-term care job vacancies approach 30%, report suggests solutions … Frontline nurses likely to leave profession...
Assisted living mental health services fell between 2019 and 2020, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 25, 2024
Mental health visits for assisted living residents living with dementia dropped as the pandemic set in, a new study finds.
More news for Thursday, Jan. 4
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 04, 2024
LCS approved to take over financially troubled CCRC … Senior living provider establishes workforce development endowment … Protecting heart health may prevent dementia … Daily learning test can detect...
More than 40 percent of assisted living communities do not provide mental health services: CDC
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 07, 2020
More than 40% of all assisted living communities do not provide mental health services, despite the high prevalence of dementia and depression among residents, according to a new report from the Centers...
More news for Tuesday, May 10
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 10, 2022
Massachusetts first state to earn employer designation from Age Friendly Institute … Affordable assisted living facility sued over negligence, staffing … High-need, isolated older adults have worse...
Rosalynn Carter’s dementia news ‘will increase important conversations’ about disease, family hopes
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 31, 2023
Sharing the news that former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia will “increase important conversations at kitchen tables and in doctor’s offices around the country,” the Carter family hoped...
Technique may help dementia care managers help those with dementia set, meet personal health goals
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 12, 2018
Dementia care managers may be able to use a technique called “goal attainment scaling,” or GAS, to help those with dementia set personal health goals and measure whether they are meeting them, according...