Study: Nursing home resident aggression represents widespread concern
By
Donna Shryer
May 06, 2024
In the first large-scale study on resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (RREM) in nursing homes, researchers found a one-month prevalence of all RREM types of 20%.
Shift work tied to anxiety, depression
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 15, 2023
A large study finds that shift workers have a higher risk for depression and anxiety. How they live, or lifestyle factors, is largely tied to their risk.
Ask the nursing expert … about social isolation
By
Amy Stewart
Jun 09, 2023
Q: Social isolation is being added to the MDS this Oct. 1. How should we care plan this new item?
Patients with dementia receive less home health, hospice at end of life
By
Diane Eastabrook
Feb 08, 2023
It is relatively difficult to identify when patients with dementia are within six months of death, a requirement to receive end-of-life hospice care, researchers report.
Long-term care pharmacy to pay $3 million over dispensing, reimbursement violations
By
Joe Bush
Dec 14, 2022
Residents in nursing homes received controlled substances without valid prescriptions from a long-term care pharmacy that has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations it broke federal law.
Nursing home that took in dozens after local closure now fears for its own health
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 26, 2024
The high cost of caring for skilled nursing patients is squeezing finances at Upstate New York’s Heritage Ministries after it took in a majority of residents from the closing Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation...
Nothing sketchy about the way these art classes bring skill, pride and connection to nursing home residents’...
By
Josh Henreckson
Apr 03, 2024
Many might not think of a nursing home as the most likely place to pick up a new art hobby, but the residents of Sanford Health Sylvan Court have been bucking expectations for years.
Study: Frailty linked to death, but risk may vary depending on where one lives
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 11, 2023
Frailty can affect mortality, but the level of risk depends on where you live, according to a new study.
Prediabetes at midlife tied to later fracture risk
By
Alicia Lasek
May 23, 2023
Clinicians may wish to consider treating prediabetes in women as an early, modifiable risk factor for fracture, investigators say.
How to do it… Finding and keeping infection preventionists
By
John Hall
Jan 20, 2023
With the critical shortages in the nursing home workforce today, there may not be a more important hire than the now-mandatory infection preventionist.