Baby boomers overwhelmed by caring for their parents, survey finds
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 05, 2012
Senior living operators should find more ways to market and discuss long-term care financing with baby boomers, a new survey suggests.
Initial results of five-star ratings: Nonprofit nursing homes deliver better care, analysis shows
Dec 19, 2008
Nonprofit nursing homes provide a higher quality of care than for-profit facilities, according to an analysis by USA Today of the first ratings of nursing homes by the government’s five-star rating...
Number of nursing home beds, residents decreasing, report finds
Jun 11, 2009
The number of both nursing home beds and nursing home residents in the United States declined between 1999 and 2004, according to the recently released results of the National Nursing Home Survey: 2004...
Nursing homes lukewarm to government’s new five-star rating system
Jun 19, 2008
Nursing home operators wasted little time Wednesday issuing rebuttals to the federal government’s announcement that it would create and publish individual facility rankings on its Web site by the...
Caregivers provide $375 billion in free services during 2007
Nov 26, 2008
The estimated market value of unpaid care to family and friends last year was $375 billion, according to AARP.
Private equity firms do not affect nursing home quality of care, Harvard study finds
Sep 11, 2008
A year after a news report uncovered resident care and ownership problems at privately held nursing homes, a new report from Harvard Medical School finds the opposite: Quality at nursing homes does not...
Another hospital bed entrapment concern: ‘power down’ versus ‘gravity down’
By
William A. Hyman
Oct 10, 2008
There is more to bed-entrapment dangers than just side-rail risks. In a follow-up to his popular column on side-rail concerns, academic researcher William A. Hyman warns providers about the potential hazards...