A reminder for good senior health: How much screen time is too much?
By
Barbara Resnick
Paul Katz
May 13, 2024
A study published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association provides some guidance about how much recreational TV watching and screen time is detrimental to mental...
Improving disaster preparedness for the most vulnerable
By
James Lewis
Mar 04, 2024
I read Lauren Southerland’s column for McKnight’s Senior Living, “Is your senior living community prepared for the next disaster?” with great interest as I lead the policy team for the American...
Profile: Barbara Gay
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 04, 2015
Growing up in a quintessential New England town with extended family all around, Barbara Gay always appreciated the rich relationships she had with older adults.
A lasting lesson from Barbara Bush
By
Anthony Back, M.D., and Terry Fulmer, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Jun 08, 2018
For many patients and their families, the notion of choosing to stop life-prolonging treatment is unthinkable. Disagreements over when to “give up” can tear families apart, precisely at a time...
60 Seconds with…
Aug 01, 2009
Barbara Manard, Ph.D. VP of Long Term Care/Health Strategies, AAHSA
Alabama high court upholds nursing home arbitration agreement that daughter signed
Apr 14, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court recently ordered the estate of a woman injured during her stay at a nursing home to settle its dispute through arbitration. It determined that the woman “passively permitted”...
ISL will manage California memory care community
Apr 26, 2017
Integral Senior Living has been selected to manage The Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara, a memory care community. It is its first community to manage in Santa Barbara.
Despite Republican takeover in House, healthcare reform repeal unlikely, AAHSA experts say
Nov 04, 2010
Although the full impact of Tuesday’s dramatic election results will take some time to grasp, providers should not fear a repeal of the new health reform law any time soon. Experts pointed this out...
Grande named Samarkand ED
May 29, 2014
Ruth Grande has been named executive director at The Samarkand, a faith-based, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community operated by Covenant Retirement Communities.
Profile: Barbara Sepich jazzed to help seniors
By
Amy Novotney
Nov 02, 2018
Barbara Sepich, President & CEO,WRC Senior Services One day when Barbara Sepich was 24 years old and first ruminating on what she wanted her career to look like, she picked up her journal and wrote herself...