We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bundled payments. This new approach will usher in a new era of better healthcare at lower costs, its many advocates insist. Maybe or maybe not.
A tiny Alzheimer’s study with huge results
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Jun 21, 2016
If 2025 seems like it’s ambitiously close for finding an Alzheimer’s disease cure or game-changer, take heart — there’s a recently released Alzheimer’s study that may serve as...
Early experiences with Cal MediConnect
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Bruce Chernof, M.D.
Nov 18, 2015
The traditional system of separate Medicare and Medicaid programs is the least person-centered, most fragmented, and least efficient option.
Debate over engaging seniors’ brains
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 25, 2015
New research indicates too much time playing video games may reduce our memory skills.
Masks: More than just protecting others?
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Sep 21, 2020
A friend recently told me that her co-worker doesn’t believe in vaccines. They are microbiologists. I know of someone who is a flat-earth believer. He’s an amateur pilot. We see healthcare workers...
Finally, a seat at the table
By
Liza Berger
Apr 08, 2020
Senior care providers, this is your time. Help healthcare get its act together.
Three ways to make a new hire’s day two count
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Cara Silletto
Mar 03, 2022
Today, there are more open positions than applicants, which means we have to make those first several days better for new hires. Chances are they still have a few more options waiting if the first week...
Beware frog holes and ‘I don’t knows’
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 01, 2018
Is there anything more thrilling on a winter day than sledding down the neighborhood’s steepest hill, across freshly fallen snow, in an inner tube? I think not.
6 tips for strengthening emergency plans
By
Harsha Anapur
Jan 26, 2015
With another massive New York snowstorm on its way, and as we prepare for unstable weather across the country, long-term care facilities and senior living communities need to ask themselves: What can we...
Six tips for a great gardening program
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Dave Singleton
Jun 28, 2013
A gardening program (or horticulture therapy) gives seniors an opportunity to beautify the environment around them and engage in a beloved hobby — or take up a hobby they’ve always wanted to try.