There was a major long-term care conference taking place in this gambling-loaded town this week and while attendees might not ...
A union threatens massive strike lawmakers don't more to help nursing homes ensure their employees’ pay keeps up with ...
Imposing a vaccine mandate for staff at all nursing homes shortly after COVID shots became available may have saved nearly 10,000 lives.
Ted Tzirimis has dedicated his career to harnessing technology to empower older adults, driving significant change across senior living.
The frequency of a pressure injury increases when staffing agency nurses and overtime nurse hours increased at hospitals.
Healthcare workers who developed COVID-19 and had at least one underlying medical condition missed more days of work than those who had the flu, or a SARS-CoV-2 infection without symptoms, according ...
A new study showed a progressive increase in multimorbidity, or multiple chronic conditions, in people who spent more time sedentary (or not moving). When people limited their time being sedentary to ...
Older adults who were vaccinated against shingles were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years compared with people who didn’t receive the shot, a study shows. The report was ...
A federal appeals court has rejected a nurse’s claims that the nursing home he worked at engaged in intentional understaffing ...
Health authorities have reported that a significant percentage of antibiotics prescribed in nursing homes “may be unnecessary or inappropriate,” and as an attorney representing long-term care ...
Older adults and people with certain medical conditions are more likely to receive the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ...