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The Dementia Initiative Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
The Dementia Initiative is a national effort that includes a wide array of dementia care experts from across the U.S. representing the practice, policy and research sectors. Their seminal white pap...
Training the Next Generation of Senior Living Leaders Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
With the shift to wellness in healthcare and the demands of a boomer generation for holistic care comes a need for next generation leaders. For the assisted living community, an internship program ...
Consumer Electronic Show Gives You a Window into the Future Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Step out of your comfort zone and consider attending the Consumer Electronics Show, where a few hundreds dollars and some imagination can give you a glimpse into how technology will be helping to c...
Hiring and Retaining the Best - A Series Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Long-Term care providers need to hire and retain the best and share what has worked with others. If not the industry will continue the cycle of turnover and replacement of workers.
Surewash Contributes Proper Hand Hygiene Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
SureWash was developed over five years in Trinity College Dublin. It makes hand hygiene training and compliance much less labor intensive by combining an e-learning system with patented video measu...
Stepping into Caregiving Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
This article hub is specially written to help caregivers age with a quality of life while also helping their loved ones.
Innovative Care Models in Aging Services Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
This hub of articles is an evolving and growing list of innovative care models in senior care sprouting up around the world.
Choosing a Nursing Home or Assisted Living Provider Created: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
From choosing a geriatric care manager to doing your internet homework to touring a facility, there is a lot that goes into making an informed decision about care for a loved one.
Quality Organizations in Long-Term Care and Aging Services Created: Monday, May 09, 2011 Updated: Friday, April 26, 2013
There are many quality initiatives being pursued in the aging services sector. Many overlap. Often you will see many of the same quality organizations in long-term care and aging services cooperati...
SNFists Created: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
In October 2012, penalties for certain readmissions started for hospitals. With that came a new reliance by hospitals on their long-term care partners. A new breed of primary care providers called ...
Smooth Transitions in Care Created: Saturday, September 01, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Thirty percent of re-hospitalizations in nursing homes occur for residents who have been there for seven days or less. Getting care right from the start makes a big difference in whether a nursing ...
HAIL Lab an Incubator for Aging Innovations Created: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation created the Healthy Aging and Independent Living (HAIL) Lab to support aging in place, helping seniors remain at home, healthy and independent. HAIL is housed ...
Reducing Hospital Admissions Created: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Aging Services Providers will increasingly be tasked to figure out ways to reduce hospital admissions from long-term care settings. And there will be financial implications. The Long-Term Quality A...
Security and Privacy in Nursing Homes Created: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Nursing homes are becoming more like hospitals. Yet security and privacy in nursing homes have not necessarily kept up with hospital counterparts. And when you read reports that show 90 percent of ...
Adult Day Care Overview Created: Thursday, May 26, 2011 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
As society moves away from institutionalized care to home based care and aging in place, the vital role that adult day services play will grow. Now is the time to consider this as a viable business...
Finding and Tracking Healthcare Legislation Created: Monday, May 09, 2011 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
In this article you will find go-to-sources that will help you find and track legislation. And more importantly, these resources will show you how to get involved in the issues so you can advocate ...
Employee Retention Created: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Direct care workers have hard jobs, are low paid, and nearly ever receive the rewards and recognition deserved. That is why employee retention is so hard to achieve in aging services. When a positi...
Geriatric Care Manager Created: Monday, February 28, 2011 Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013
As caregivers and families cope with the overwhelming stress of caring for a loved one, a new profession, that of the Geriatric Care Manager is cropping up. A Geriatric Care Manager can help famili...
Geriatric Care Managers Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
When choosing care for mom or dad and eventually yourself, it is often hard to know where to start and how to evaluate your care choices. You might want to start with a Care Management Service.
Evaluating a Care Facility Before Calling or Touring Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
Before you visit a care home, you will still want to do your own homework in choosing a nursing home, assisted living or other provider of care. Consider the following steps.
Touring an Assisted Living or Nursing Home Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
It’s time to take a tour of the nursing home or assisted living facility you are considering. We’ve broken this into two articles to make it manageable.
Touring an Assisted Living or Nursing Home Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
It’s time to take a tour of the nursing home or assisted living facility you are considering. Here is the second of two articles.
Teleconferencing and the Patient Experience Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
The convenience and immediacy of videoconferencing is infiltrating healthcare as a value-added service and as long as patient's choices and services are not removed by the addition of technology, p...
MDS 3.0 Discharge Planning Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
Increasing efforts have been taking place in all states over several years to enhance resources, services, and supports available in the community to address the rights of all individuals to have t...
Guest Writer: Angil Tarach-Ritchey RN, GCM Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
Angil is a national eldercare expert, author, speaker and consultant with over 30 years experience in geriatric care and advocacy, and is self described as “a nurse who loves old people.”
Guest Writer: Susan Berry Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
Susan Berry is a Senior Consultant with CMS Compliance Group, Inc. (CMSCG).
Scouts Honor Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
Scouts can be a vital component in your activities programming. They are always looking for community projects and can be a help with clean-ups, gardening, building bird houses and so much more. Sc...
Transparency in Assisted Living Created: Monday, April 01, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013
How do people shop today? They want objective reviews, open and honest information (and lots of it), and immediate access to everything about your business. Consumer, in short want transparency.
MDS 3.0 By the Category Created: Saturday, October 01, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) tool for facilitating care management in nursing homes is called the Minimum Data Set (MDS), a core set of screening and assessment elements th...
Activities for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Created: Thursday, December 01, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
An individualized, well though out activities program is at the heart of a quality life for residents in nursing homes or assisted living residences. Activities is not just about bingo and watching...
Busy Bee Lap Pad Created: Friday, February 01, 2013 Updated: Friday, March 22, 2013
One of the most difficult challenges of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia is the person’s withdraw from favorite activities. Christy Schmid faced this problem with...
Recruiting Healthcare Workers Created: Sunday, March 06, 2011 Updated: Thursday, March 21, 2013
One of the fastest growing segments of the economy is healthcare so you would think it would be easy to recruit the best healthcare workers for aging services businesses. Recruiting qualified healt...