Direct Care

Pharmacists will continue to move into central roles in healthcare, including chronic disease management in the adult patient population, the authors say.

States bet that direct care will benefit from strict limits on nursing home spending … FDA approves new application for drug that eases intubation … Alzheimer’s diagnostic software receives FDA ‘breakthrough’...

A call to increase minimum direct staffing hours 4.1 per patient, per day was roundly rejected as unrealistic by providers.

The long-term care sector should use the coronavirus public health crisis as an opportunity to explore broader training opportunities that would allow staff members to work across multiple settings, including...

Facilities that serve more residents with mental illness tend to have quality characteristics that differ substantially from other nursing homes, say investigators.

Long-term care stakeholders generally support proposed regulations on background checks of direct care workers, according to an informational memorandum issued Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

Long-term care providers and states should agree on what a “direct access employee” is and whether that person has a criminal conviction that should keep him or her from working in a nursing...

Organized labor groups will need to collaborate with non-union direct care workers in order for the eldercare workforce to meet the significant needs of an aging population, experts contend.

Direct care costs for treating Alzheimer’s disease are estimated to be $200 billion in 2012, a new report reveals. Fully $140 will be paid through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. While 800,000...