By now it’s likely that you, your staff, the residents and their families have seen the incredibly disturbing photo of assisted living residents in Dickinson, TX, sitting in waist-high floodwaters....
Put on your boogie shoes — your brain will thank you
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Aug 29, 2017
I’m a fan of dancing. I’ve been known to bust a move in bars, at weddings, in school musicals and during obligatory dance breaks at college football games. But one thing I actively tried to...
A solar eclipse of the heart
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Aug 22, 2017
As Bonnie Raitt’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was playing in my head for the days leading up to Monday’s solar eclipse, the national news of hate and division that’s been...
In case you missed it, there’s a new Medicare audit process coming
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Aug 22, 2017
it’s understandable if a story we ran last — about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revamping its Medicare audit process — slipped under your radar. Here’s what you need to...
Understanding and dealing with negativity in the workplace
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Paul White
Aug 18, 2017
Negativity is one of the most common, and deeply ingrained, obstacles to a healthy work environment.
Contending with life passages
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Julie Thorson
Aug 17, 2017
With each life passage we gain more perspective and experience. For that reason alone we should learn from those who are older than us. I have never been more aware of that than this week.
Falls: A closer look
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Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Aug 15, 2017
Speedy assistance should be the norm when falls occur, but the reality is that it’s frequently a rarity. The staff is often stretched too thin. What can be done, aside from ensuring adequate staffing,...
Using the powers of Facebook for good, not evil
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Aug 15, 2017
As more people join social media and start voicing their opinions online, more long-term care consumers — like it or not — are likely to turn to social media ratings since government review sites...
Finding the passion in long-term care
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Alyssa Salela
Aug 11, 2017
I observed and wrote a lot about the long-term care industry this summer, but one thing was consistent through all of it: Long-term care providers are passionate.
And the award for most maligned part of long-term care goes to …
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James M. Berklan
Aug 10, 2017
It took a while, but I might have finally found something that therapy providers can point to with righteous indignation and say, “That ain’t right!”