It’s time for private nursing home rooms
What’s it going to take to protect nursing home residents from the coronavirus? As the pandemic wears on after eight months, making its daily trudge across the United States and back, one answer...
Coping advice from nursing home residents
As we face the gloomy prospect of a pandemic winter, I consulted some experts for suggestions on how to handle difficult periods in life — nursing home residents.
To reduce hospital readmissions, consider the power of voice technology
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital readmission for older adults had become a $20 billion annual expense for Medicare. An important study by the University of Texas Division of Rehabilitation Sciences...
Don’t let up this fall. A potential ‘twindemic’ awaits.
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the leaves are turning and the temperature is dropping. It’s another lovely fall day, but what does that mean for those of us in healthcare? October is when we...
Is long-term care about to flip off old habits?
When I hear about innovation in long-term care, I sometimes have to stifle a chuckle.
Reimagining our nation’s older adult care system
No one could have predicted the challenges COVID-19 has brought to caregivers and the millions of older adults they serve. But the pandemic has exposed major and systemic issues in the older adult care...
Carrots better than sticks, providers happily agree
The challenge is this: Stay ahead of the public at large even though you have a much more vulnerable population.
A bear of very little brain
I can’t tell you the peace I feel from setting aside the unknowns of the election and the incomprehensible intricacies of delivering vaccines to long-term care facilities to consider our economic future.
It’s time to be #HolidayStrong
The leaves have started to change, and each passing day brings us closer to the holiday season. Every year, we eagerly anticipate this time as an opportunity to be physically close to family and friends,...
I don’t want to turn back the clock
This weekend we’re supposed to turn the clocks back an hour? Um, NO!
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