Best practices for protecting leaders and facilities from COVID-19 lawsuits
By
Raj Shah
Jan 08, 2021
Nursing home staff, administrators and frontline caregivers have worked tirelessly to prevent and manage the pandemic. Despite their heroic efforts, over 101,000 seniors and 750 employees had died of COVID-19...
‘The finish line is in sight. We just all have to keep running’
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 08, 2021
You don’t always have to “beat” anyone else to enjoy success. Sometimes you just have to get to the finish line, and to do that, you merely have to keep running.
A beautiful thing to celebrate
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 07, 2021
This is a good time to focus on something undeniably positive that’s happening in our own profession.
How COVID-19 affects the brain and what to do about it
By
Ari Kalechstein, Ph.D.
Jan 06, 2021
In the early months of the pandemic, much of the research on COVID-19 focused on the manner in which the disease affected respiratory function, i.e., the capacity to breathe. Over the course of the...
What residents can teach us about vaccine risk
By
Liza Berger
Jan 06, 2021
Dealing with the everyday fears of this pandemic sometimes feels like dancing with a ghost.
Dogs may help save caregivers from COVID-19 exhaustion
By
Mike Powell
Jan 05, 2021
Caregiving is an admirable job, and during COVID-19 it’s been even more important. But caregivers are prone to burnout. Did you know dogs can help? Although nursing home and senior care residents...
Keeping skilled nursing facilities fully staffed amid a triple threat
By
Chris Hedrick
Jan 04, 2021
Caregiving is America’s largest profession and the job role with the widest gap between supply and demand. Four and a half million long-term care workers support individuals in institutions and home-based...
You know what’s coming in 2021 — or do you?
By
John O'Connor
Jan 03, 2021
Let me spare you a lot of unnecessary reading and worry, while offering some advice about the road ahead.
The Equalizer: A holiday story from the ‘Before’ time
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Dec 29, 2020
She told me about her life via handwritten notes and the occasional use of a talking computer that verbalized what she painstakingly typed out. “I’ve been a cripple ever since I got polio as a...
The worst year ever?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Dec 22, 2020
Was 2020 really “the worst year ever”? Let’s take a closer look. It might open your eyes.