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Finding warm-ish, semi-qualified bodies is just part of the long-term care staffing challenge. Without being psychic or subjecting each applicant to a full, military-grade psychological evaluation, how...

Q: What is the burden of wound care on the economy and society at large?

A bipartisan group of US senators representing rural states is calling on the Biden administration to halt its plan to mandate staffing levels in nursing homes, saying it’s the wrong step to take as...

Despite the growing telehealth use, especially during the pandemic, many doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers remain reluctant to use it when dealing with medical issues affecting older adults.

Many long-term care administrators know how to foster that kind of environment already, but I might just have to drive the rest of them over to my gas station to observe and somehow assimilate their methods...

With the critical shortages in the nursing home workforce today, there may not be a more important hire than the now-mandatory infection preventionist.

For more than 15 years, Majd Alwan had a front row seat to an information revolution that has taken big strides toward full interoperability in nursing homes.

Meera Riner’s first job after college was as an occupational therapist working in the slums of Mumbai with children who suffered from cerebral palsy and polio. Parents might carry children across the...

Staffing agencies that pay temporary nurses as contractors, issuing them 1099s instead of W-2 wage statements, may be putting the nursing homes who use them at increased legal risk.

In this day and age of all that is going on with nursing homes, it is important to focus on areas that don’t get much attention right now, but that are, nonetheless, critically important in our society.  ...