Thanksgiving comfort: Phone calls, emails work best to reduce residents’ loneliness, boost spirits
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 24, 2020
According to the Yale School of Public Health, regular phone calls or emails may provide the most solace for people living in long-term care facilities. This includes remote calls, and phone calls while...
Doesn’t anybody read emails anymore?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 11, 2022
Doesn’t anybody read emails anymore? Oh, you’re going to answer that of course you do. Of course you read emails. But do you really read your emails? Like read the entire email? If you’re like...
Conversations nursing home management should not have via emails
By
Howard Kurman
Jun 09, 2014
There have been countless nursing home managers, supervisors, and even HR executives, who have committed impolitic comments about employees in email messages. Those comments often become evidence in cases...
Nomophobia threat
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 01, 2013
They say confession is good for the soul, so here goes. I’m having an affair — with my smartphone. What started with a few innocent conversations and some harmless texting quickly became an obsession,...