Fighting the biggest threats to older adult health and wellness
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 18, 2023
Two toolkits are out to help senior living providers and others address some of the biggest threats to older adult health and wellness: influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, COVID-19 and falls.
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...
How to maximize vaccine uptake in your senior living community
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 28, 2023
New research provides insights into approaches that providers can use to increase vaccine and booster uptake in their communities.
Medicare drug price negotiations: A game-changer for seniors’ healthcare
By
Luka Yancopoulos
Nov 02, 2023
The relatively recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which among other provisions, allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, marks a monumental shift in senior healthcare in America.
FDA authorizes Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all adults
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 19, 2021
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday amended the emergency use authorizations for both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, authorizing use of a single booster dose for everyone...
Information to arm you against vaccine hesitancy among older adults
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 01, 2021
As the COVID-19 vaccine continues to roll out to assisted living and independent living communities — having not reached some of those communities yet — two new surveys shed some light on feelings...
Federal, state governments must ensure senior living access to Pfizer vaccine boosters, associations...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 27, 2021
National industry associations are promising to continue to advocate that senior living providers be prioritized and assisted in COVID-19 vaccination efforts following Friday’s endorsement of boosters...
CDC director overrules advisory panel, recommends COVID-19 boosters for healthcare workers as well as...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 24, 2021
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday endorsed boosters of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for long-term care residents and others 65 and older, frontline workers...
Continue to be careful
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 19, 2021
Recent COVID-19 outbreaks among vaccinated residents at senior living communities are a reminder that we all should continue to be careful.
CDC committee recommends that everyone 50+ get a COVID-19 vaccine booster, says those 18+ may get one
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 19, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously voted Friday afternoon to open up COVID-19 booster vaccination to all adults age 18 and older...