There’s a legendary photo of General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore upon a heroic return to the Philippines in World War II, and that’s what popped into my mind recently when I saw an elderly...
Remember residents and farm life
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 16, 2014
Journalism, like long-term care, is a smaller world than one may think.
On working the weekend shift and getting ‘Nickel and Dimed’
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 13, 2022
Author Barbara Ehrenreich was a champion of the working class, for a time living paycheck-to-paycheck within it, and later, a fierce advocate for seniors and the idea of aging with dignity. She was also...
Barbershops are for girls too
By
Renee Kinder
Mar 17, 2022
The Lansdowne Barber Shop in Lexington, KY, is a special place for many reasons. To begin, it is a hidden gem tucked literally behind restaurants, a candy store and an ice cream shop, requiring its customers...
‘Okie El’ rocks out, and then veges out
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Apr 28, 2015
My first-ever trip to Oklahoma for a speaking engagement recently included no fringed surries. But there was a bustling, well-run long-term conference, animated conversations with attendees, life-altering...
WHO calls end to COVID-19 global health emergency
By
Alicia Lasek
May 08, 2023
It is time for the international community to recognize COVID-19 as an endemic disease and end the pandemic health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Friday.
The vaccine was most protective — at 90% efficacy — when participants received an initial half dose and then a full dose a month apart, the U.K. drugmaker says.
New guidance prescribes exercise ‘like medicine’ for cancer patients, survivors
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 17, 2019
Clinical evidence supports prescribing physical activity like medicine for people diagnosed with cancer, says an international team of experts.
Nurse aide admits to stealing, pawning resident’s wedding ring
By
Jan 11, 2016
A former aide at a Minnesota nursing home has admitted to stealing the wedding ring off of a resident’s finger and pawning it over her lunch break.
Long-term care leaders criticize Washington Post article on reimbursements
Mar 31, 2010
A recent Washington Post analysis of the use of “ultra-high” reimbursement categories for nursing homes “paints a negative, incomplete picture of the growing role and tangible benefits...