There is a new set of revisions to the long-term care survey guidelines 2025, which surveyors will begin using on March 24, 2025.* The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a 900-page document last year outlining the changes, which...
Nestled between a common space and the mailroom in the independent living section of the retirement community where I worked as a fellow in geriatrics, there was a place called the Treasure Chest — a small thrift store filled with things that held...
Data from LTCfocus (Long-Term Care: Facts on Care in the U.S.) can determine whether a nursing home has a dementia specialty care unit, researchers found.
Unionization can improve the financial well-being of direct care workers, including personal care aides, nursing assistants, and home health workers, a cross-sectional study in the United States found.
Caregivers in nursing homes experience joy through relationships with patients, and this joy helps contribute to caregiver well-being and team dynamics, a Canadian study found.
Dear Dr. Diane: It feels like everywhere I go, every discussion I have is about how AI [artificial intelligence] is taking over medicine. Our EMR already has decision support tools, and I do wonder what is next as family members come into my...
With the increasing shortage of health care providers, the number of older adults needing care is rapidly approaching a tipping point, outstripping the availability of health care professionals to meet the demand. Likewise, incorporating the volume...
Wound care specialists in post-acute and long-term care settings often keep an open invitation for primary care teams to join their weekly rounds. Unless rounds are ridiculously early, primary care practitioners often recognize that working together...
Despite growing interest in expansion of consumer- (or self-) directed models of Medicaid-funded personal care, research characterizing program use is limited. We leverage health plan and claims data from a large health plan in New York to examine (...
