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Professional liability rates for long-term care providers have moderated since early 2024, but an “upward rate trend” is ...
CDC changes up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination information for NHSN reporting … Increase in construction prices threatens ...
Alert systems that involve the community in locating a missing person with dementia must balance privacy concerns and safety, ...
Smart sphygmomanometers? Oxygen concentrators that mine Bitcoin? OK, not that far. But as 2030 approaches, long-term care ...
SNFs and a major association have jointly urged DHS to end the targeting and deportation of thousands of immigrant workers.
A cadre of researchers — including the de facto dean of nursing home staffing studies — has proposed a new tool using a nursing home’s case-mix index as a way to set expected daily nurse staffing ...
Drinking coffee regularly is linked with a lower risk of frailty in older adults, a recent study published in the European Journal of Nutrition finds.
The rates of anal cancer have risen steadily in the United States, and the biggest increases were in older women — especially white and Hispanic ones, according to a new report.
Scientists have announced a breakthrough in Parkinson's disease detection using a new immuno-infrared sensor (iRS) test that ...
A new study shows that specific speech and hearing tests can identify primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare type of ...
Long-term care providers in yet another state are bracing as caregivers consider striking for what they say would be necessary pay increases.
The skilled nursing workforce has picked up just under 3,000 new workers since March, a new jobs report by the Department of Labor said.