Providers find that the growing challenge of serving more diabetics and their foot ulcers is best done with foot specialists and a dedicated care team
After leading in COVID-19 drug trials, a nursing home chain now partners on dementia drug
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 31, 2022
Principle LTC, operator of 45 nursing homes in the Southeast, is building on its successful role in testing a key drug for COVID-19 prevention and treatment to launch trials of a new Alzheimer drug.
Keeping watch by night
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 04, 2016
Overnight incontinence care deserves special planning and strategies; providers get personal with individual options and high-tech solutions
Despite the pressure, wound care toughened by pandemic
By
John Hall
Jun 01, 2021
Higher risk, fewer on-site specialists were met with resourcefulness, more comprehensive telemedicine.
Deadly fungus outbreak spreading across SNFs in multiple states
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 10, 2019
Health officials are warning nursing facilities to be on the lookout for a rapidly spreading, drug-resistant disease.
As the treatment expert: We seem to always have a mess when changing colostomy or ileostomy bags. Have...
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Oct 01, 2020
We have two new ileostomies in my building, and most of us are not very versed on changing colostomy or ileostomy bags. We seem to always have a mess when changing the appliance. Have any tips?
Ask The Care Expert
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Aug 01, 2019
As a new DON, I have instructed my staff to remove, rinse and reuse colostomy bags. Do you agree? As a person who has a colostomy, I do not agree with reusing bags. I choose to use a one-piece system....
Meet Vassar Byrd, Hall of Honor inductee
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 09, 2020
Vassar Byrd didn’t start her professional life in senior living. Holding a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics, she first spent more than 10 years as an economist for the...
Latest cleaning alternative fits like a glove
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 06, 2017
SCA has added its Tena Bathing Glove as an option for U.S. long-term care facilities. As an alternative to soap and water, it is the first pre-moistened, disposable bath glove for professional caregivers,...
For whom does the bell toll? MDS knows
By
Steven Littlehale
Jun 01, 2014
Death is never an easy topic. Hemingway addressed it eloquently in his novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” the title of which was taken from meditations on health, pain and sickness by poet John...