Sizing up a major skilled-care bankruptcy: Prelude or a comeuppance?
When Senior Care Centers announced last week it would seek creditor protection, shockwaves quickly shot through the field. After all, this was no mom-and-pop operator.
When Senior Care Centers announced last week it would seek creditor protection, shockwaves quickly shot through the field. After all, this was no mom-and-pop operator.
It’s not morbid to talk about death, even on the dance floor at your high school reunion.
Following my C-section earlier this year, I was fortunate to be able to access heavy-duty pain medication. Until we discovered my pain pump wasn’t working. That was unfortunate, but luckily I was young(ish),...
I’ll admit it. I’m still a little angry. If righteous indignation were an alternative fuel source, I could solve climate change all on my own.
The plan was as simple as it was ambitious: Find “no-brainer,” perhaps nonsensical, regulations and practices that should be eradicated from nursing home routines. Consider step one a rousing success.
Randie Dale Duretz was named after a race horse, and by all accounts her parents must have been prescient.
One Louisiana nursing home has become a regular animal house, though it’s not populated by frat boys or sorority sisters.
The skilled nursing side of the post-acute care industry has worked hard in recent years to shed its outlier image among other sectors of healthcare. Under the evolving landscape of reform, it’s beginning...
Computer tablets can carry entertainment to residents, helping them create connections with their caregivers and the world around them.
For many of us, the transition from spring to fall brings melancholy and thinly-veiled fear — in life and in long-term care.