Jean Wendland Porter

My family is full of therapists, and most of us work in skilled nursing. My sister, an experienced speech language pathologist, called to commiserate about one of her patients who had difficulty swallowing. ...

As a long-term care provider, what’s your favorite thing about Medicare Advantage?  No three-day hospital stay. And not much else.  As a beneficiary of Medicare Advantage (MA), there are plenty...

At last. I haven’t worn a mask in public in months, I’m starting to see friends again, I’m eating in restaurants again, and my new normal is the old normal. Life is good.  There’s some hesitation...

Our residents living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias may find it difficult to control their behaviors at day’s end, which we know colloquially as “sundowning” because of the prevalence of the...

On May 11, 2023, the Public Health Emergency ended in the United States. Obviously, the whole world is celebrating the diminished COVID-19 numbers and the drop in COVID-related deaths. But we’ve been...

Everyone has been feeling the nursing shortage, and now the Biden administration has tightened staffing rules, and that order will become a harbinger of more skilled nursing facility crises and closings....

A recent Washington Post article caught me where I live. It wasn’t about the impact of inflation, the  current geopolitical climate in Europe, or the role of microplastics in our food. This article...

The New York Times recently published an op-ed about how healthcare workers are “burned out” from multiple factors, including decreased staffing, pandemic challenges and increased regulatory oversight....

The Public Health Emergency, initiated in 2020 and continuing to the present, established a new and complex means of getting healthcare.  Because many were worried about social distancing and leaving...

I got a board game for Christmas. It’s called The Worst Case Scenario, and requires the players to pull a  card describing situations from discomfort to disaster and rate them from best to worst. Then...