As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, most senior living providers are reporting that their residents are experiencing both cognitive and physical declines due to a lack of consistent and meaningful...
The data revolution, which has picked up speed in long-term care recently, may be poised to improve therapies and treatments for some common afflictions among the elderly.
My household smells like the inside of a swimming pool. Literally, only Clorox will do. Walls, floors, bathrooms, kitchen, even in the laundry. Everyone here has some piece of clothing that has suffered...
McKnight’s Power Panel: Succeeding Despite the 2020 Pandemic
According to Paraprofessional Health Institute data, there were 581,000 nursing assistants working in nursing homes in 2018. Their median wage was just $13.38 an hour. Ninety-two percent were women,...
This pandemic has shifted our perspective like few things have done before. Now, here we are, at the end of July, hitting milestones such as 4 million U.S. cases and other depressing records. And...
At CHE Behavioral Health Services, a nationwide organization providing behavioral health services to patients in skilled nursing facilities and now to the general community, we had to work quickly to provide...
Here is some advice from staff members of New York City nursing homes hit early in the pandemic.
I’m a resident here in this nursing home; And my life has been turned upside down I can’t read your face — like I used to do, Can’t tell a smile from a frown It’s that mask you wear; It hides...
My favorite teacher of all time is still going at it, as she has been for more than five decades. She’s Leah Klusch.
