Long-term care providers need to change their mindset when it comes to hospice care. Here’s why.
Time to make your Egg McMuffin
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Oct 18, 2016
If you’re among the group of providers and vendors gathered in Nashville this week for the American Health Care Association’s 67th Annual Convention & Expo, and you have the bonus of absolutely...
Don’t snooze? You lose
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Oct 11, 2016
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study noting health concerns for night-shift workers didn’t exactly give the day-shift crowd a clean bill of health, either. Day-shift workers still...
Let the government teach you a lesson about millennials
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Oct 04, 2016
The stars in the workforce-strategy universe must have aligned on Thursday, because a new government report about millennials dropped around the same time that we kicked off a webcast on hiring and retaining...
Got kidney stones? It may be time to visit Disney World
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Sep 27, 2016
Before you jump on the “Who paid for THAT study?!” bandwagon, know that this research wasn’t borne from some scientist’s Nyquil-induced fever dream.
A reel problem for seniors
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Sep 20, 2016
Hollywood has a long way to go before it accurately reflects the diversity of the people who pay money to see its films.
Take, for example, seniors. Research from the University of Southern California...
Who are you wearing?
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Sep 12, 2016
Whenever I see a city I once lived in making headlines or trending online, I cross my fingers and hope it’s for something good. This was not the case this past week.
Lessons for LTC providers — with students as the teachers
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Sep 06, 2016
There are some lessons providers can glean from students who have made the jump into a living situation where few in their age group have gone before. That’s right, nursing homes.
Paging Dr. Google
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Aug 30, 2016
Experts recently squared off on the use of medical websites, and whether they can help keep patients engaged in their care or run the risk of misinforming them about serious medical conditions (and annoy...
Time to start clowning around
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Aug 24, 2016
I like the occasional clown — as long as they’re where they’re supposed to be. But when they’re not? Downright terrifying. Then came this new nursing home study to put that line of...