With more older adults on the road and dementia cases rising, some states require doctors or patients to report dementia ...

A bill that many providers view as the best bet to upend the federal nursing home staffing mandate finalized last week will get another hearing in Congress Tuesday. The House Energy and Commerce ...

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Petersen Healthcare — operator of nearly 100 rural Midwest long-term care facilities — hit a snag last week in its plans to restructure and sell struggling facilities as part of a Chapter 11 ...

Marianne Longo has been the chief clinical officer for care coordination, at Help at Home for less than a year, but she’s ...

Essential tremor (ET), a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary, rhythmic shaking of the hands and head, is one ...

A new study offers a promising way for patients to relieve knee pain with self-administered acupressure (SAA), an ancient ...

The latest example arrived last week, courtesy of our friends at the Department of Labor. They unveiled a final rule aimed at broadening overtime protections for salaried workers. The measure will ...

Regularly screening nursing home residents for COVID is a cost-effective way to reduce infections and protect lives, especially when many residents are not up-to-date on vaccinations, according to a ...

Kristen Duell wasn’t satisfied with a successful career that brought her into the C-suite of two healthcare companies.

Many state governments installed new regulations to govern nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, but those state-level ...

Mental health visits for assisted living residents with dementia dropped as the pandemic set in, a new study finds.