Easing the family’s transition from home to care community
By
Haymarket Media
Dec 05, 2016
Even though I’d worked as an activities director and administrator in long-term care, placing my mother in assisted living and then in memory care was initially a wrenching and emotional experience.
Taking action to reduce hospital returns
By
Tom DePoy
Jul 14, 2014
Today, Revera nursing centers are taking effective steps to bring down rehospitalization rates, control costs and improve patient outcomes.
New challenges, opportunities for long-term care pharmacies
By
Susan Janeczko
Feb 23, 2011
Some 59% of community pharmacies provide critical long-term care services to patients and 100% of them face unprecedented challenges as 2011 gets into full swing.
Changing the conversation: How Americans talk, think and feel about aging
By
Bruce Chernof, M.D.
Jun 01, 2011
In my 25 years as a physician, I’ve never heard anyone describe themselves as a “functionally impaired patient with chronic multiple conditions,” a “long-term care recipient”...
Home care versus nursing home care: Who decides?
By
Jeff Petty
Jun 02, 2009
It’s easy for people to say, “I want home- and community-based services.” But there are certain things to consider, such as who’s picking up the tab.
Nursing homes, we’re doing better
By
Drew Vogel
Apr 20, 2022
Thirty-three years ago, I entered the nursing home business. In the twenty-four years before that, I was a radio newsman. Not much resemblance between those two professions! In one, it’s all out...
Whatever you’re doing to fight long-term care stress, stop it
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 07, 2022
With another possible COVID-19 wave on the way, and the Biden brain trust still eager to “wallop” the profession, long-term care people have plenty of reasons to continue aggressively seeking stress...
Achieving full staff vaccination through leadership, culture and longevity
By
Kathleen O'Connor
Nov 01, 2021
It was around the time that Pfizer submitted its first vaccine trial information to federal officials that Mary Saleh, LSW, administrator of Alden Lincoln Park in Chicago, started talking with her staff...
Long-term care residents and caregivers in Washington State deserve better
By
Bill Ulrich
Aug 21, 2020
Nursing homes in almost every state are in a fight for survival. To a large extent this was true before COVID-19 reared its ugly head in our nation’s long-term care facilities. Unfortunately, Washington...
Cheers to 30 years at Mass Senior Care
By
Carolyn Blanks
Jul 08, 2015
We have made great strides in support of our mission to enhance clinical and workforce quality across the continuum of care for older adults and people with disabilities.