When you think about it, long-term care is really a thorny issue—particularly the financing side of it. As Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security resources dwindle, and more people grow older and live longer, figuring out how to pay for eldercare is a monumental challenge.

DON national median salary reaches $75,000; SNF managers fare better than some others

Like many revolutions, long-term care's recent embrace of technology-based brain fitness tools began quietly. Then it exploded.

A leading nursing-home association is calling for an independent panel to come up with new methods for overseeing nursing facilities. The association's task force issued 31 recommendations, highlighting steps that can be taken.

Nursing-home providers continue to lobby against the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act, which passed out of the House Judiciary Committee in late July.

Providers cheered a decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to trim $770 million from Medicare Part A payments to nursing homes during the coming fiscal year.

July is normally a busy time in Washington. Lawmakers routinely work late into the night debating how to shape the dozen spending bills that largely dictate federal spending for the coming fiscal year.

Federal regulators have put themselves on the spot as a result of their new five-star rating system for nursing homes.

The process that exempts most nursing home residents from therapy payment caps was set to expire at the beginning of this month, federal regulators cautioned providers.

U.S. lawmakers continued to campaign for an end to nursing home pre-admission agreements.They hammered providers recently on the topic, holding no fewer than three congressional hearings and introducing the second of two bills that would prohibit the secretive deals during a four-week period.