New limits on COVID vaccinations threaten nursing homes’ ability to get shots to frontline staff ahead of the coming respiratory virus season, providers and healthcare advocates are warning.

A group of surgeons has proposed measuring how often hospitals discharge post-surgical patients to nursing homes as a way to ...

Federal regulators have taken a “big jump” in their latest interpretation of third-party financial guarantees, putting limits on contractual language used by nursing homes for decades, a pair of ...

A comprehensive fall prevention program integrated into primary healthcare systems significantly reduced falls among older ...

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It would be nice to believe that all long-term care operators are doing things the right way. And, to be fair, many are.

Five states that used payroll subsidies to drive nursing home staffing increases succeeded, but they also saw nursing homes ...

New research suggests that accumulated wealth, rather than current income, may significantly protect against dementia among the oldest adults. The longitudinal study, conducted in Germany and ...

A comprehensive international study analyzing data from nearly 69,000 older adults in aged care homes, also known as long-term care facilities, has identified the most effective strategies for ...

Illinois and Maryland skilled nursing facilities have been rebuffed in their attempts to turn back six-figure penalties for ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders across the skilled nursing industry began asking a pressing, practical question: How ...

Older adults with cardiovascular disease are experiencing declining heart health scores and face significant challenges ...