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Some people look forward to spring for the warmer weather and daffodils. I love spring because the Cleveland International Film Festival comes around. I saw a movie this year called First We Bombed New...

There are markets for just about everything, where sellers and buyers exchange goods and services. The same is true for nursing homes.

These days, with everything happening in long-term care, discussions are often focused on minimum staffing, lack of staff, increased enforcement, and focus on quality of care and technology.  That’s...

June marks Aphasia Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about aphasia, a language disorder that affects communication abilities following brain damage, often due to stroke.  Aphasia...

Let’s be honest. While many of us are going through weight loss journeys, don’t we sometimes ask the question, “Isn’t there something that will just make me look thinner?”   I mean,...

Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are the backbone to most long-term care organizations. In addition to national efforts to increase CNA wages and benefits and standardize CNA career pathway models currently...

My focus on the importance of the medical director in improving nursing home quality occasionally gets pushback from family members who have had negative experiences with doctors in nursing homes. Those...

When I was 11 and 12 years old, my older brother and I spent two summers with my grandparents, who lived on a lake in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. It was spectacular. They owned 10 acres of undeveloped,...

The Mother loved flowers, gardening and butterflies. She was a master shopper and enjoyed the hunt for a good sale. The first incident occurred in a butterfly exhibit. Butterflies were flying around them,...

I and most other humans I know are obsessed with steps, and not just of the 12 variety.  We wear tracking devices 24/7, like an entire society under house arrest, and monitor step counts with religious...