Harvard Medical School

Despite caring for a sicker patient population and higher staff turnover, skilled nursing facilities provided post-acute rehabilitation services with only a modest decline in intensity, investigators say.

Last year, real estate investment trusts owned an estimated 12% of all skilled nursing facilities, a level that Harvard researchers say should push policymakers to “ensure that the REIT business model...

The CDC has relaxed rules for wearing respirators in healthcare settings, but a team of Harvard doctors is encouraging workers to keep an eye on local COVID-19 rates. The superior fit and filtration of...

Workforce challenges that have plagued long-term care operators during the coronavirus pandemic will get worse as the crisis further progresses this year, one of the nation’s top health policy analysts...

It’s time for the federal government to “own” the problem of containing COVID-19 by paying for and arranging testing across nursing facilities, long-term care policy expert David Grabowski...

Three longevity-associated genes dramatically improved or completely reversed multiple age-related diseases in mice, researchers have found.

Nursing homes and other non-hospital providers largely have been overlooked in efforts to improve patient safety, and this needs to change, an expert told a Senate panel Thursday. Today, “little...

A contact lens that can deliver glaucoma medication may signal a new era for treatment of the eye disease. Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology, Boston...

Older adults with diabetes who took insulin through their nose showed cognitive improvement, a small pilot study finds.

Palliative care reduces the number of visits seniors in long-term care settings make to emergency rooms, a new study finds.