Reader Poll: How do you make the holidays special for your residents?
Nov 06, 2017
“At Levindale, to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, the eight-day Festival of Lights, we light the menorah, community choirs sing, and we have intergenerational programs. Our residents show...
Staff key to better resident oral health
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 06, 2017
Improved caregiver education can help residents maintain oral health over longer periods, according to research published in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology in September.
Telescopic cells aid high-risk patients
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 06, 2017
Patients who spend more than eight hours a day in a wheelchair have a far lower incidence of pressure ulcers when it is equipped with a single-compartment or multi-compartment air cushion using telescopic...
Steady-release dressing has promise for chronic wounds
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 06, 2017
A new, semi-occlusive wound dressing that provides continuous delivery of topical healing agents shows promise in the treatment of chronic wounds that need steady treatment.
Ask the Treatment Expert about … skin integrity meetings
By
Jeri Lundgren
Nov 06, 2017
How can we make our skin integrity meetings proactive and prevent pressure injuries?
New option for readmissions analytics
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 06, 2017
Medline Industries and Real Time Medical Systems announced a partnership in October geared to reducing hospital readmissions.
Expanded wound care line includes silver dressings
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 06, 2017
Dynarex, citing an increased demand from customers, has added new products to its Advanced Wound Care Line, including silver- and honey-based dressings.
When drones attack
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 06, 2017
It’s your job to think about the future, so we definitely need to talk about drones in long-term care. Not the one who delivered that boring 100-slide PowerPoint at your last facility all-staff....
Where Are They Now: Rosewood
Nov 06, 2017
The residents at Rosewood, a life plan community in Bakersfield, CA, break the stereotype that older adults aren’t interested in technology — and they do it with an “incredible appetite”...
Telemanagement helps trim readmissions from facilities
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Nov 06, 2017
Heart failure patients whose conditions are monitored using a telemanagement system may be less likely to be readmitted to the hospital from a post-acute care facility, according to the results of a recent...