Healthcare reform: No matter how much you may loathe it, there’s no way around how certain ideas, like pay for performance, aren’t going away.
Assisted living’s portrayal in “Trainwreck”
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 20, 2015
It’s not revolutionary to see long-term care come up in a feature film, from “Away from Her” to “The Savages.” But it’s brave to incorporate it into a comedy, especially...
Kicking and screaming: The need to document verbal disputes
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Elizabeth Newman
May 15, 2014
If I have a favorite quote from this year’s LeadingAge Illinois conference, it’s from Matthew Murer, an attorney at Polsinelli, who said it’s OK for long-term care providers to turn away...
The volunteer conundrum
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 15, 2015
While it’s hard to have firm data on visitors to nursing home residents, it’s estimated that at least half never have a visitor. This can be for a variety of reasons: A relocation away from...
An easy way to reduce antibiotics
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Elizabeth Newman
Jan 30, 2014
It is tempting to run to my internist and beg for an antibiotic to stem what could be a sinus infection, but is more likely, much like the polar vortex, a cold that won’t go away. I was reminded...
How healthcare helps you get a job
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 26, 2017
The fate of many of the members of our long-term care family are now in the hands of the Senate as it debates the future of the Affordable Care Act.
The secret to success sits in dining services
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 09, 2014
By the end of the day Tuesday, after a week full of educational sessions, it took a lot to break through the clutter in my brain. That moment happened when Kyle Henderson made a slightly throw-away comment...
Evaluating ‘Still Alice’
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Elizabeth Newman
Feb 18, 2015
Much like Amour a few years ago, it’s not unrealistic for those who work or write about long-term care to feel as if the last thing they want to do is spend two hours watching a movie about illness,...
‘Forest fires’: What’s your plan?
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Elizabeth Newman
Sep 04, 2015
Long-term care tends to ignore home- or community-based service technology and data mining, but the era of bundled payments, partnerships and accountable care mean it’s time to pay attention. Of...
Investments in lower back pain needed
By
Elizabeth Newman
Mar 25, 2016
This week the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute announce this week it was authorizing $22 million to study ways to improve treatment of chronic low back pain, along with another $12.5 million...