Study IDs older adult subgroups at high risk of multimorbidity … AMDA changes name to PALTMed to be more inclusive … 2 charged with locking residents in unlicensed residential care home
Assisted living communities close to hospitals more likely to use EDs for residents’ primary care
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 14, 2023
Assisted living communities located close to hospitals are more likely to rely on emergency departments to provide non-emergency primary care rather than invest in onsite or on-call medical staff, according...
People in the news, March 21
Mar 21, 2023
Appointments, promotions and other news at Acts Retirement–Life Communities, AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care, Anthem Memory Care, Charter Senior Living, Discovery Senior Living,...
People in the news, March 14
Mar 14, 2023
Appointments, promotions and other news at AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, Anthem Memory Care, Cypress Cove, Erickson Senior Living, Goodwin Living, HMP Senior Solutions,...
Aging services leaders issue urgent plea for federal plan to end ‘national nightmare’ of COVID-19
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 06, 2020
A federal plan is needed to end the “national nightmare” of the pandemic, the leaders of six national organizations representing aging services providers told the president, vice president and leaders...
The Senate has unanimously approved the Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act.
How new long-term care models and tech can cut into billions spent on rehospitalizations
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Josh Henreckson
Apr 17, 2024
Nursing homes are on the frontier of new care models and technology solutions that have the potential to save billions of dollars in healthcare costs.
Proposed nursing home staffing mandate would hurt senior living providers ‘fishing from the same...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 07, 2023
CHICAGO — Even though the staffing mandate proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services directly would apply only to nursing homes, senior living providers as well as providers across the...
Industry advocates join coalition to support federal bill requiring use of Alzheimer’s detection tools
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 04, 2023
A bipartisan bill requiring the use of cognitive impairment detection tools in the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias has the support of the senior living industry.
$4 billion increase in Alzheimer’s funding needed to prevent ‘catastrophe,’ coalition with provider...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 11, 2023
Funding the national response to Alzheimer’s and related dementias is a “national priority, economic and budgetary necessity, health and moral imperative,” according to a coalition of 360 organizations...