Recruitment and retention tips direct from frontline workers
By
Aug 02, 2017
Long-term care managers need to understand what they can do to make their workplaces as employee-centered as possible — or risk losing out on the best workers, experts and front-liners alike emphasized...
Got kidney stones? It may be time to visit Disney World
By
Sep 27, 2016
Before you jump on the “Who paid for THAT study?!” bandwagon, know that this research wasn’t borne from some scientist’s Nyquil-induced fever dream.
A person-centered road trip
By
Mar 22, 2016
The road to person-centered care is a long one, paved with good intentions but filled with potential barriers and roadblocks.
A sticky situation: HCR ManorCare’s court filing
By
Oct 20, 2015
HCR ManorCare’s court filing against Trinity Health Services is full of snippets that left me either scratching my head or flat out disgusted.
What’s on LTC’s ‘to-don’t’ list?
By
Oct 18, 2017
My main takeaway from a key speech Monday is likely something that hit home for others in the audience as well: we should focus less on what we should be doing, and more on what we shouldn’t.
An ounce of pressure injury prevention
By
Jun 06, 2017
Benjamin Franklin once said that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” His 1736 statement was referring to firefighting — better to prevent a fire than deal with putting one...
It’s time to take your medicine — seriously
By
Apr 18, 2017
People not following their doctors’ medication orders contributes to an estimated 125,000 deaths and 10% of hospitalizations per year, along with somewhere between $100 billion and $289 billion in...
A reel problem for seniors
By
Sep 20, 2016
Hollywood has a long way to go before it accurately reflects the diversity of the people who pay money to see its films.
Take, for example, seniors. Research from the University of Southern California...
Don’t snooze? You lose
By
Oct 11, 2016
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study noting health concerns for night-shift workers didn’t exactly give the day-shift crowd a clean bill of health, either. Day-shift workers still...
A tiny Alzheimer’s study with huge results
By
Jun 21, 2016
If 2025 seems like it’s ambitiously close for finding an Alzheimer’s disease cure or game-changer, take heart — there’s a recently released Alzheimer’s study that may serve as...