Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to grow their direct care...
First-of-its-kind resident lawsuit targets state health department’s late nursing home inspections
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
A group of nursing home residents in Maryland has filed the first known lawsuit seeking to compel a state to meet requirements that it inspect all of its skilled nursing facilities at least annually.
Closure of historic nursing home reflects sector’s increasing infrastructure problems
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
An unsuccessful, years-long bid to find a partner willing to finance needed capital improvements or help redevelop a historic nonprofit nursing home in South Boston will lead to its closure this summer.
Also in the News for Monday, May 20, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
States tackle language-based barriers to worker training, testing … New $12M grant program to focus on senior care, home care training … NY Senate weighs whether to include therapists in state’s...
Passing of ‘superwoman’ Sherrie Dornberger, top NADONA exec for the last 20 years, leaves massive...
By
James M. Berklan
May 19, 2024
Sherrie Dornberger, the caregiving powerhouse who bounced back from her own life-threatening medical issues to assume one of long-term care’s top nurse leadership posts, died Wednesday after a two-week...
Blood pressure drugs linked to higher fracture risk in nursing home residents
By
Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
New evidence indicates that older adults taking blood pressure medications have more than double the risk of bone fractures. The findings come from Rutgers Health researchers, who analyzed data from nearly...
Life expectancy to increase around the world, study predicts
By
Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
The new Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021 forecasts a near five-year increase in global life expectancy by 2050, but it also highlights threats, such as obesity and high blood pressure, that could...
Technology helped older adults stay connected during pandemic, small study finds
By
Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic changed almost everyone’s social calendar, with meet-ups moved to video chats, office collaboration happening over communication apps, and social media replacing lunch with a friend....
Clinical briefs for Monday, May 20
By
Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
Study: HRT may improve pulmonary hypertension in women … Identifying a distinction between Alzheimer’s and long COVID symptoms … Recommended type 2 diabetes drug for older patients may reduce cancer...
AHCA/NCAL Quality Summit kicks off Monday
By
James M. Berklan
May 17, 2024
The 2024 AHCA/NCAL Quality Summit will take place Monday through Wednesday in San Antonio, giving providers innovative ideas, strategies and inspiration to ensure high-quality care.