Common cognitive disorder often misdiagnosed as dementia … Belly fat finding may lead way to age-related metabolic disease prevention … Older adults have less diabetes distress, better blood sugar control … Nurse staffing shortage expected to get worse
As we’ve adopted the Green House Project® model of care, we’ve noticed staff and residents have truly become like family.
I bring you some of the striking tidbits from frantically filed notes on the road that might or might not have already seen the light of day. Some of this is just too good not to share, or share again.
Strolling with an adorable dog through my neighborhood at twilight last night was an eerie journey into the macabre. The neighbors’ yards have been scary for weeks — there’s an election going on, after all. But now the creepy dial was cranked to 11.
Hope you had a nice Labor Day. For most of the country, it comes around once a year. But if you are leading a long-term care organization, it’s pretty much an everyday event.
AMN Healthcare’s Survey of Millennial Nurses: A Dynamic Influence on the Profession looked at those nurses between ages 19 to 36 when compared to baby boomer nurses or Generation X (ages 37 to 53).
The chief executive of a struggling skilled care provider is cutting his own position, after 18 years on the job, in a bid to keep the home afloat.
Despite an industry-wide push for staffing improvements, skilled nursing facilities did not reduce their reliance on nurse aides between 2014 and 2016, new federal data shows.
Nursing shortages are nothing new, and they’re going to get worse. So why haven’t we adopted solutions that other countries have already? There ARE ways to get around this.
To some it could be like studying less for an important exam. Taking food away from a person in need of nutrition. Donating one’s modest paycheck to the millionaire’s club.
