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...
Home sweet home — in the right mood
By
Sep 29, 2015
Moving is always exciting to me. This isn’t because I enjoy the stressful process of apartment hunting and packing my life away into boxes like a real-life game of Tetris, because, let’s face...
It’s time to talk about long-term care’s diversity problem
By
Nov 08, 2016
Long-term care leadership has a diversity problem. Don’t believe it? Travel to a national long-term care convention and look around — what do the majority of attendees look like?
The hidden threat lurking in your facility
By
Mar 14, 2017
I don’t mean to make your lives more difficult by adding another issue onto that pile, but according to a recent survey from the National Safety Council, there’s a problem plaguing American...
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 pitch perfect performance
By
Dec 15, 2015
In my high school’s theater department, the Wednesday night before a show officially opened was always reserved for a very special occasion: Senior Night. The audience, filled with people’s...
Don’t drop the Diet Coke just yet
By
Apr 25, 2017
Every so often a new study will be published that reminds me of my favorite Onion headline of all time: “Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s...
Your FitBit might just save your life — and your residents’
By
Jan 24, 2017
Even though I fell off the wearable fitness monitor bandwagon, recent research from the Stanford University School of Medicine might just serve as the incentive I need to jump back on it.
Long-term care’s fear factor
By
Mar 15, 2016
If you’ve been keeping up with McKnight’s Daily Editor’s’ Notes, you’ll know former LeadingAge CEO and President Larry Minnix’s potential presidential platform includes...
Yes, you do need to prepare for transgender residents
By
May 24, 2016
I was a Girl Scout growing up, and despite our slight rivalry with our Boy Scout counterparts (Girl Scout cookies are better than popcorn in every conceivable way, please stop fooling yourselves) I can...