Assisted living residents among most likely to receive home-based healthcare: study
Homebound adults in assisted living are top users of home-based medical care, but there is plenty of room for better meeting their needs, say investigators.
Assisted Living
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, June 3
Study shows toxic tau protein spreads in brain of older Alzheimer’s patients … Uneven handgrip strength plus weakness may predict rapid cognitive decline … Eli Lilly begins first human tests of a COVID-19 antibody drug … CDC updates infection control guidance for assisted living
Clinical Daily Briefs for Thursday, May 28
One-time COVID-19 testing for assisted living would cost $232 million, AHCA / NCAL estimates … Tau inhibitor promising in rapidly progressing dementia type … CMS webinar: Establishing a nursing facility infection prevention program … Researchers studying similarities between COVID-19 and rheumatoid disease
Clinical Briefs for Tuesday, April 14
Gene variant staves off Alzheimer’s in some people, scientists find … Virtual training keeps assisted living med-techs certified during pandemic … Tips for contact lens and glasses-wearers during pandemic … Only 6% of at-home blood pressure monitors validated for accuracy: study
Most senior living facilities short on coronavirus-fighting supplies, survey finds
More than two-thirds of the nation’s senior living facilities report trouble sourcing equipment, particularly N95 respirators.
Alzheimer’s cure would mean $16B in lost revenues for assisted living
A cure for Alzheimer’s disease would be a “medical miracle” but would result in a loss of $16.3 billion in assisted living annual revenues.
Snobbery that skilled care operators can ill afford
Quite a few skilled care operators tend to look at assisted living as being not quite equal. Many on the skilled side tend to see themselves as being a bit, ahem, more qualified.
SNFs and cabbies agree that more regs are needed — for the other guy
You can gain real insights about your future by examining what the competition is up to. Remarkably, there are still some skilled care operators who don’t see assisted living as the competition. For them I have only two words: dementia care.
Paro goes to Hollywood
It’s not too often that I see topics that we cover at McKnight’s spill over into pop culture. Especially not on a brand new, critically acclaimed Netflix comedy series.
McKnight’s Senior Living and Daily Briefing debut
Senior living professionals have a new source of daily news, analysis and information from the most trusted media publisher in long-term care. McKnight’s Senior Living (www.McKnightsSeniorLiving.com) is now delivering a daily e-newsletter, the Daily Briefing, to providers who request it. The new website and daily newsletter are separate, sister products to the profession’s most-honored website (mcknights.com) and e-newsletter (McKnight’s Daily Update).
