A personalized playlist seen as key to longer workouts
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 06, 2015
Helping residents make a personalized, tempo-based music playlist may help them better stay on track during cardiac rehabilitation, according to a study published in May’s Sports Medicine-Open.
Medical marijuana may not aid dementia
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 06, 2015
Behavioral symptoms of dementia, such as agitation, or wandering, may not be helped by medical marijuana pills, research suggests.
Workers often MRSA carriers
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 06, 2015
About one in four nursing home residents are carriers of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Bad sleep links to Alzheimer’s
By
Holly Petrovich
Jul 06, 2015
Lack of sleep in old age may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests.
Sailing through ‘Wish of Lifetime’
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 06, 2015
As a little girl, Rhode Island resident Shirley Payne loved to be on the water.
Golden Living claims ‘retaliation’ behind huge Pennsylvania AG lawsuit
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 06, 2015
An operator of 36 nursing homes in Pennsylvania is being sued by the state’s attorney general’s office, Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane announced Wednesday. The company staunchly denies claims...
New trial strives to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics in PA/LTC facilities
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 02, 2015
A $1.5 million national trial will be held to analyze ways to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics in post-acute and long-term care facilities, the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health and Sciences...
CA combines 280,000 LTC workers to form largest nationwide union
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 02, 2015
Long-term care workers from 37 counties in California have combined into the largest local union in the country, the Service Employees International Union announced Tuesday.
Providers should use technology to reduce antipsychotic drug use, experts say
By
Holly Petrovich
Jul 01, 2015
New technology can help reduce the use of antipsychotics for nursing home residents with dementia, experts said during a McKnight’s Super Tuesday webinar.
Association slams proposal favoring unionized nursing homes
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 30, 2015
Connecticut lawmakers are planning to distribute funds to nursing homes based on “irrelevant factors,” the state’s largest association of skilled nursing facilities said.