More seniors are making a move into long-term care as a lifestyle choice, thereby taking advantage of the array of products and services available for seniors at virtually every physical state, from the...
Evaluating AL versus personal care homes in PA
Dec 26, 2014
The introduction of Assisted Living Residences in PA as a cheaper alternative to nursing homes that will allow seniors to delay or avoid a move to nursing facility in essence is great. However, the reality...
Health reform, Steve Jobs and owning more of the aging services pie
By
Anthony Cirillo
May 05, 2010
To survive in this new era of healthcare reform, long-term care organizations need to carve out a bigger role in the continuum of care.
The truth behind long-term care insurance
By
Brendan Williams
Jul 06, 2018
For some, long-term care insurance has long been viewed, despite all evidence to the contrary, as a nostrum to fix what ails long-term care.
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...
Looking at COVID-19 through the eyes of residents with dementia
By
P.K. Beville
Aug 10, 2020
When I was in graduate school as a single parent, barely making ends meet, I lamented to my mother in loud, ugly sobs that I thought I might be going crazy. I was serious. My mother calmly responded,...
Dear Santa, please bring one more moment
By
Martie Moore
Dec 18, 2019
I thought I was prepared to face the loss of a thousand moments. I was not. I am not.
Who is accountable in Accountable Care Organizations?
By
Alieta Eck, MD
Feb 08, 2011
Part of the scheme of ObamaCare is to set up Accountable Care Organizations. As is typical of all “innovative” government programs, they might seem good on paper but are really nothing new...
Where did person-directed care go?
By
Penny Cook
Mar 15, 2021
As we mark the one-year anniversary of life-altering changes brought about by COVID-19, I think about those aspects of life that left me, and those that have arrived. What has left me? Air travel,...
Transformation in Upstate New York: Shaker Place Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
By
Larry Slatky
Jan 06, 2020
At a time when most county nursing homes are being bought by private organizations, our nursing home in Upstate New York has found a way to buck the trend and is receiving tremendous support from local...