Sr+ : The rising need for dementia service
It is not your imagination: Providers at all levels of senior care are seeing an increase in referrals for patients with dementia. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, the projections for new...
Non-invasive way to manage urinary incontinence at Oct. 8 webinar
Attendees at an Oct. 8 McKnight’s webinar will learn of a new system that fills unmet urinary incontinence needs of long-term care patients and caregivers.
When it comes to COVID-19, family matters!
Although your residents, patients and employees are top priority, we all know there is another important group that is trying to cope with the challenges of COVID-19 … the families of your residents...
CMS two-day flurry gives nursing homes what they want, or does it?
Anybody who has ever said nursing homes don’t get much attention can dial back that rhetoric after the last couple of days.
What the fires can’t destroy
With a pandemic continuing unabated, and now hurricanes, floods and wildfires ravaging large swaths of the nation, I don’t know how many more apocalyptic horsemen the long-term care profession is...
Techniques in self-care to beat COVID-19 burnout, exhaustion and stress
We all face challenging situations. To think life would be without them would be an erroneous way of thinking. These challenges may be related to work, family and personal relationships and, now, the coronavirus....
Running on fumes
It’s important for people to know we are running on empty. We have been. I see it in my teammates, and I see it on the faces of my friends across the country.
Three virtual care components every senior care facility needs
As with any crisis, COVID-19 has exposed and widened existing cracks in the foundations of our nation’s healthcare infrastructure. This instability is particularly evident in senior care, given the extreme...
The brevity of documentation
Is it just me, or is nursing documentation lacking something? I mean, I don’t expect a nurse to write a book, but I don’t want to play Sherlock Holmes when I am trying to read a nurse’s notes, either. ...
The lockdown’s ill effects
We all know that human contact is important. But when you are talking about vulnerable people who rely on human interaction to maintain their quality of life, interacting with loved ones is not a benefit,...
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