Social media may help ease depression in elderly, even while it’s crushing everyone else’s soul
By
Marty Stempniak
Oct 25, 2018
In the face of this deadly opioid epidemic, I’ve seen all sorts of alternative methods floated to help remedy patients’ pain. Be it, laughing gas, yoga, sugar pills or exercise. Now researchers are...
Male incontinence: How to address it
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 03, 2018
In general, I am loathe to make too much of differences between men and women, but that’s especially true it comes to long-term care. After all, no matter who you are, chances are quality of life,...
Journey of Heroes deserves showing, not telling
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 15, 2016
Every year about this time, I tell you eagerly and often weepily about “The Trip.” The one where 12 veterans, many of them from World War II and living in long-term care, get to hop on a plane...
Ability to read emotions is an undervalued skill in long-term care, elsewhere
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 20, 2014
According to a psychologist at the University of Bonn, recognizing people’s emotions positively affects income, namely because these people in a business environment are able to care and deal with...
Expanding telemedicine definitions
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 13, 2014
The quickest, and most dangerous, way to dismiss the concept of telemedicine in long-term care is to envision it as a physician or nurse sitting in front of a computer with an elderly resident on the other...
Overcoming impostor syndrome at LeadingAge
By
Julie Thorson
Nov 03, 2014
Being selected to participate in the 2015 LeadingAge Leadership Academy was quite a surprise to me this summer. I applied thinking there was little chance I would be accepted. Fortunately, I was, and I’m...
A pitch perfect performance
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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...
Spray on the PAM to reduce readmissions
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 24, 2013
In life, as Donald Rumsfeld once said, there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. This may sound like gobbledygook, but it’s actually relevant to business and long-term care.
A Baptist Home blast from the past
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 30, 2017
Coming from a long line of folks who hate to throw anything away, culling more than 250 books this summer from our house has been physically painful. But the cleaning also has resulted in some unexpected...
Enraged about an unfair playing field for nursing home admissions
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 21, 2017
It was not a good sign from the start. The “personal” email stiffly started “Dear Sir,” The first line only validated my gnawing feeling: “I can’t tell you how enraged...