Over the holidays, my family watched the movie, The Help. What an amazing film. It was too easy to forget how prevalent racism was in the early 1960s as depicted in this movie, set in Jackson, Miss. My teenage boys were shocked at how “the help” were treated in those days.
After being hospitalized for pneumonia and a kidney stone a few weeks ago, I was sent to a sister facility of my current nursing home for antibiotic therapy and isolation. This was confusing, but I had no say in the matter. My current facility's management assured me that few changes had to be made for my accommodations at this facility because there was a private room available.
Fluctuations in world economies, life expectancies and resident demographics have put the concept of “senior living community” through a worldwide evolution, according to a new report by market researcher Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) announced Monday it has partnered with the first-ever senior living association in India and will assist the new group with developing a program to advance the nation’s quality of services.
A three-day conference held this past-December in New Delhi, India, spurred the creation of Association Senior Living India (ASLI), which includes top leaders from the country’s senior living companies and businesses.
In a unanimous vote earlier this week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended Congress provide no cost-of-living payment increase for skilled nursing facility services in 2013.
LTC facilities would also face a 4 percent cut in 2014 as the start of a rebasing initiative recommended by MedPAC.
I’m going to share with you a brief story about an incredible nursing home resident. You may know her well.
Raising the eligibility age for Medicare would reduce federal spending and increase revenues, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report. But raising the eligibility age would also cause many to face higher premiums for health insurance, higher out-of-pocket costs for healthcare, or both.
Older Americans with cirrhosis have significantly worse health status, greater functional disability and require twice the amount of informal caregiving compared to those without the disease, according to findings published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
In this new monthly blog, I will bring you the big picture in long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) health information technology, and inform you on how to participate in the future—so we in long-term post-acute care can control our future, through strategic planning.
To meet the needs of an aging population where upwards of one in every eight baby boomers is predicted to develop Alzheimer’s disease, the Department of Health and Human Services has released its draft framework for a national strategic plan to address Alzheimer’s.
Executives in the aging services field will have a new meeting to attend and discuss innovations at this year during LeadingAge’s recently announced PEAK Leadership Summit, to be held April 23-25 in Washington, D.C.
Using a nicotine patch may help improve mild memory loss in older adults, according to a recent study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
