It’s true that sometimes life’s best pleasures are life’s simplest pleasures.
A vote for Valentine’s Day
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 14, 2012
For lucky residents at the Fox Run Retirement Community in Novi, MI, today isn’t just be a day for candy hearts. There will be specialty cheesecakes dipped in chocolate, and white chocolate flavored...
Their generation
By
John O'Connor
Feb 12, 2012
To hear some rock and rollers sneer it, you’d think that living long is a terrible fate. But is that really the case?
Vultures and the smell test
By
John O'Connor
Feb 10, 2012
So I’m listening to the radio the other day when a friendly but serious voice starts in about about how putting a loved one in a nursing home is a gut-wrenching choice. It’s all just a prelude...
Fixing the empathy gene
By
Mary Gustafson
Feb 09, 2012
If you are reading this, you likely work in long-term care and probably are skilled at empathizing with others. But you might have a coworker who doesn’t seem to “get it” yet.
New Jersey’s real giants?
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 08, 2012
What a week for New Jersey. It started with the pro football team that has its roots there winning the Super Bowl, and it’s going to end with a first-in-the-nation effort by the state’s assisted...
It’s been a hard day’s day
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 07, 2012
Providers have one big reason to cut back on overtime: It can lead to a hemorrhage of money. But now there’s another: It could make your employees depressed.
Where have you gone, concurrent therapy?
By
John O'Connor
Feb 06, 2012
Five years ago, about a quarter of all nursing facility residents were receiving rehab care in concurrent therapy sessions. These days, almost none do. But it’s not hard to see why this service option...
Peace is hell
By
John O'Connor
Feb 03, 2012
On Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered some tough-love testimony about rising healthcare costs and our shrinking Treasury. This would be very sobering news indeed — if an easy answer...
When residents attack
By
Mary Gustafson
Feb 02, 2012
Winter, especially in colder climates, can take a toll on anyone’s mood. The cure for one upstate New York assisted living community is an unconventional one: a good old-fashioned snowball fight.