2020 trends in senior care put the focus on people needs
By
Jordan Parnell
Gerald Stoll
Feb 27, 2020
Just when you think the pressures on the senior care business can’t get anymore intense, they do. We have more aging adults in various states of health putting growing strain on the system. The growing...
The gig economy’s latest victim? Healthcare staffing
By
Chris Caulfield
Feb 25, 2020
The traditional healthcare staffing model isn’t working. It’s inefficient and expensive for facilities, burning out nurses by strong-arming them into overworking, and putting patients at risk. When...
A look at Germany’s intriguing long-term care system
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Feb 25, 2020
There’s a lot we can learn from the German long-term care system.
New nursing initiative to alleviate workforce crisis
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 21, 2020
The ongoing staffing crisis afflicting the long-term care industry may meet its match thanks to the latest initiative by a national nursing group.
The future of post-acute care is visual
By
Brian Wallace
Feb 18, 2020
As an outside influencer to the long-term care space, I’ve discovered a rising trend in healthcare marketing like I’ve never seen before in my 13.5 years (and 10–11 years in infographics, specifically)...
Bulk of nursing home work for nurse practitioners remains nonclinical, finds study
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 10, 2020
The role of a nurse practitioner in these settings is a hybrid of nursing consultant and a fee‐for‐service clinician, say researchers.
Do you have a silo mentality in your residential facility?
By
Herb Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Hl.D.
Feb 07, 2020
A generalization: Most groups, such as seniors living in retirement communities, have within them social, professional territories. That is, there is an assumption that groups, clusters, committees, political...
Suspect accused of smothering nursing home resident reportedly confesses to murder
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 05, 2020
A Florida man accused of smothering a nursing home resident with a pillow reportedly confessed to the crime while speaking to his estranged sister in jail.
Analysis: Providers adjust to the new world of PDPM
By
Liza Berger
Feb 02, 2020
As landmark program begins, stakeholders now ask the question: What will the data show?
Modern-day barn raising
By
John Andrews
Feb 02, 2020
A close-knit farming community in the Great Plains pulled together to create Burwell CMHC, a unique long-term care showplace.