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More than 7 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease — the highest number ever, according to a new report. Americans want to know if they have the disease and want medication to treat it if ...
It had been years since Virginia skilled nursing resident and former Army colonel George Taylor had taken his wife out on a date.
Most older adults experience pain, which is linked with significant limitations in their functional capacity. A new study pinpoints which activities are most and least commonly painful for older ...
Amid what one New York official has called a “childcare desert,” a skilled nursing provider is opening up its own childcare center.
Nursing homes that share as little as 5% of their direct care staff with other facilities are more susceptible to infectious disease outbreaks, with high-occupancy buildings at even higher risk, ...
Major provider and residents groups are pairing up to ensure the financial strength of continuing care retirement communities.
During my 45 years in the senior care field, primarily as a nursing home executive and being active in associations, teaching, mentoring, volunteering and ...
The nation’s second-largest nursing home has earned a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 5-Star Quality rating.
For more than a decade, skilled nursing providers have seen behavioral health demands explode among their residents.
Connecticut lawmakers are proposing an increase to nursing home staffing mandate, a move that they said would "boost direct ...
Increasing physical activity between the ages of 45 and 65 can help prevent Alzheimer's disease, a report published Wednesday ...
Daily and hazardous drinking among family caregivers of people with dementia was significantly and independently linked with increased odds of abusive and neglectful behaviors, a new study finds.