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If one were looking for an opportunity to shape long-term care, there might be no better time to step into a top advocacy position than days after federal officials launch a major reform effort.

Wrist-worn wearables and under-mattress sensors identified early signs of decline that regular staff checks didn’t pick up in nursing facility residents, according to a trial conducted by clinicians.

Medical directors and other advanced clinical staff can do more to help direct care workers cope with the ongoing staffing shortage, a strategy that experts at the PALTC2022 annual conference said Thursday...

President Biden’s call for nursing home reform must extend to the industry’s clinical leadership as well, a top clinician advocate contends. A public directory would be a step toward transparency...

The Biden administration’s approach toward nursing home reform uses the unsuccessful and “punitive” tactics that haven’t proved to advance quality for years, according to a top industry group. 

The long-term care national association for medical directors is making it easy to partake in its annual conference March 10 through 13.

Industry geriatricians have compiled resources for their LTC peers who have not yet come on board with monoclonal antibody treatments. Resident immunity to COVID-19 is declining, and mAbs may prevent hospital...

New data show J&J’s COVID vaccine 94 percent effective with a second dose, company says … Feds partner with AMDA in $10.5M immunization campaign … One in three caregivers say they’ll refuse COVID...

This newer bariatric population can present equipment needs and care challenges for staff that some nursing home operators are not yet prepared meet, industry observers and researchers say.

Booster shots for the most vulnerable appear to be on a fast track to federal authorization. But clinicians want information about necessity, safety, dosing and more to justify prescribing an extra dose...