An 18-month program combining leadership training and quality assurance education is being credited with reducing turnover and improving resident safety and quality of life.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is increasingly relying on a relatively new — and recently expanded — regulatory tool to quickly remove clinicians and companies from the Medicare system ...

Nursing students who participated in a serious game (SG), “Home Visit Navigator,” performed significantly better in post-class knowledge tests, end-of-term examinations and knowledge-point access ...

Recently, an article in McKnight’s Senior Living highlighted new research from Environmental Science & Technology that cautioned the use of quaternary ...

The physicians, nurse practitioners and physician associates who provide medical care in nursing homes do not work for the facility and are not paid ...

Jill Vitale-Aussem has spent many years of her three-decade career in senior living and care advocating against ageism and for inclusiveness and a culture that recognizes that people can live lives of ...

As many as half of all nursing home patients may benefit from respiratory therapy, given rising complexity and common conditions such as COPD, congestive heart failure and other chronic breathing and ...

Private equity nursing home owners targeted in any legal cases over the last decade would effectively be blocked from buying or operating additional facilities in Minnesota under proposed legislation.

Swapping sedentary behavior (SB) or sleep with light physical activity (LPA) — even in small amounts — is linked to better physical and mental health in Chinese older adults. That is according to a ...

A recent event brought a musical group, the Care Chords, to AristaCare at Cedar Oaks for a celebration of Holi. It was a packed house with nearly 100 residents and their families in attendance, ...

Overall, family caregivers who met with advance care planning (ACP) specialists reported positive experiences in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

Changes to a key component of the Patient Driven Payment Model remain in limbo two years after they were first proposed, but federal regulators are still poised to refine the system to accommodate for ...