HIPAA policies, transitions to higher care levels can cause nursing home and assisted living residents...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jun 27, 2014
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities should evaluate certain processes and organizational features that commonly lead residents to feel stigmatized, according to recently published research findings.
When assessing nursing home resident preferences, remember that ‘it depends,’ researchers...
By
Tim Mullaney
May 15, 2014
Nursing home residents’ preferences depend on a variety of shifting factors, so caregivers should frequently assess preferences and seek to understand what is behind them, according to recently published...
The easiest rule to break in long-term care?
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 30, 2013
If you work in long-term care today, you might feel like you’re drowning in an alphabet soup of possible deficiency ratings. So forgive me, but let’s imagine there’s yet one more possible...