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.
Staff interaction habits are holding back nursing home quality improvement, researchers find
By
Tim Mullaney
Jun 10, 2014
Nursing homes can improve resident care and staff satisfaction by changing the usual way that workers interact with each other, suggests newly published research from investigators at a handful of academic...
Direct-care workers to be focus of summit examining best practices, research and policy
May 20, 2011
It’s said approximately 90% of direct long-term care is performed by aides, and it is that category of worker that will be highlighted at a daylong summit Thursday in the nation’s capital....