When it comes to staff education, we all know the usual routine: pop in a DVD and voila!—everyone has reviewed universal precautions. Or perhaps your company has advanced to individualized computer instruction, where a staff member watches a video and answers the questions that follow to prove their competence on the subject matter.
The LeadingAge Center for Applied Research has received a $698,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to assess the effectiveness of affordable housing settings for meeting the long-term care needs of low-income older adults.
It was a day like any other day—and then everything changed. I got a phone call that my staff was taking Clifford to see his physician; he had been unable to get out of bed that morning and was very sick. Within a few hours Clifford was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and congestive heart failure. We were all stunned, and with good reason: Clifford was not just one of our residents at the nursing home—he was THE resident at the nursing home. Allow me to explain.
Impaired mobility, falls and decreased memory function are some of the top health concerns of men aged 55 to 97, according to recently released findings of a Canadian health survey.
The cross-sectional postal survey of 2,325 older Canadian men led by researchers at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal found that older men are most concerned with their ability to maintain independence and quality of life.
Sunrise Senior Living is opening more than 250 of its communities to public tours next week during its second annual Tour of Homes, the company announced Monday.
The American Health Care Association (AHCA) praised announcements made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at last week’s 2012 MDS National Conference in St. Louis to incorporate “several changes aimed at easing the complexity of MDS 3.0,” the association said in a statement.
I heard whispers before breakfast that John (pseudonym) had been hurt by his roommate, Payne (pseudonym), who had been here for a week or so. Although he was short with residents and staff, he had not been violent.
When I arrived in the dining room, I saw that John's left eye was blackened and swollen shut. He is traumatically brain injured and can move some. But he uses a geri-chair and needs assistance with everything.
Since my last blog there have been a number of meetings and reports that are very important to long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers and IT vendors. Here’s a review of these events and some information on how you can get involved.
Prudential Financial, Inc., has discontinued the sale of individual long-term care insurance plans and will focus solely on group long-term care insurance, according to a company announcement.
Prudential will honor existing individual LTC policies and the terms of those contracts, which are guaranteed renewable, will not change, the company said. As long as premiums are paid on time, and benefits are not exhausted, coverage will remain in place, although premiums can be changed subject to regulatory approval.
I think it’s time to fire up the social media in senior living discussion again—but for the wrong reasons, of course.
Caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias will cost the United States an estimated $200 billion in 2012, according to a new report from the Alzheimer’s Association.
This includes $140 billion paid by Medicare and Medicaid, according to “2012 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures.”
Nursing home residents who are vitamin D deficient are at high risk of mortality, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Researchers from the Medical University of Graz, Austria, examined whether vitamin D deficiency is an independent risk factor for mortality in elderly nursing home residents.
