Remember those innocent days when long-term care was hopelessly tech-phobic, and EHR was just a quick way to tell 911 your facility was under attack by an Emerging Hostile Rodent?
Gary Tetz: Hands off my salt!
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 05, 2019
Here’s a question that just popped unwelcome into my idle mind. When time taps me on the shoulder and beckons toward a long-term care facility, what should I pack?
Nurse-led geriatric primary care model offers care benefits for seniors
By
Kristen Fischer
Dec 04, 2023
A new study found that integrating Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training-Primary Care (GITT-PC) can improve primary care for older adults.
Discrimination a barrier to advance care planning for sexual, gender minorities, study finds
Aug 22, 2022
Experiences of discrimination in healthcare leave sexual and gender minority adults in doubt that their preferences will be considered in end-of-life care, investigators report.
Things I Think | Keep moving forward — It’s the only choice
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 01, 2021
In hiking or life, through any difficulty, there’s only one strategy I’ve ever found that always applies: Keep moving.
Poll: Most vaccinated seniors plan to pursue updated COVID booster shots
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 12, 2022
Fully 61% of previously vaccinated seniors are “very likely” to pursue vaccination with the upgraded shots expected to be authorized this fall.
Things I Think: Save enough to get back home
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 07, 2022
I wanted so badly to keep going, to devote everything I had to my mission that day, and I felt like a complete failure when I turned around.
Judge denies appeal by Burkhart, former American Senior Communities CEO serving 10 years for audacious...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 18, 2021
A federal judge has denied a motion by former American Senior Communities CEO James Burkhart to throw out his felony fraud convictions, ruling that his law firm’s conflict of interest did not adversely...
Welcome to The Club
By
John Andrews
Jan 01, 2013
Greystone Healthcare Management unveils an upscale rehabilitation center that could be a game-changer for the post-acute care sector.
Pharmacist wary of feds relaxing nursing home vaccination process
By
Joe Bush
Dec 20, 2022
While nursing home advocates like LeadingAge and the American Health Care Association lauded last week’s federal loosening of restrictions on facilities giving COVID-19 booster shots in order to increase...