While early visitation and contact restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic were influenced by a sense of urgency to protect nursing home residents and staff from infection, these policies also had a ...

Older adults with lower education levels experienced progressively higher odds of long-term mortality after acute hip surgery, according to an August study published in the British Journal of ...

While traditional strategies for addressing staffing gaps get the job done, they don’t address the underlying problem.

The Value of Speech-Language Pathology-Led Instrumental Swallowing Assessment for Dysphagia Management shows that 69% of adults with stroke were identified as having inaccurate diet recommendations ...

Enrollment in a hospital-operated Medicare Advantage (MA) plan was associated with lower rates of skilled nursing facility ...

As AI becomes more prominent in how we do our jobs, shouldn’t there be some positive, tangible benefit for adopting it?

A New York nursing home is asking a federal appeals court to determine whether the National Labor Relations Board may impose ...

Older women with dementia reported being physically active and spending time outdoors, maintaining social connections and ...

Regulators are putting more emphasis on falls, and they’re increasingly seen as a window into staff coverage, communication ...

While some folks prefer to spend their Saturdays sleeping in, Bill Durkan has a different routine. Every Saturday morning for the last five years, he has awakened early to visit terminally-ill ...

Institutional-Special Needs Plans that include standing nursing practitioner involvement are well suited to high-need ...

Out of thousands of skilled nursing facilities nationwide, only two earned the prestigious Gold - Excellence in Quality Award from the American Health Care Association this year. One of those top ...