Patients 80 years of age and older experienced a 31% reduction in mortality and a 20% reduction in the risk of new coronary events when they participated in statin therapy, according to a March study ...

Being in a more advanced stage of chronic kidney disease (CKD) comes with an increased risk of cognitive impairment among patients with CKD, according to a February study published in the JAMA Network ...

Nursing home patients are more likely to die in the facility or in hospice than in a hospital in states with mature POLST programs, according to a new, first-of-its kind study.

In many skilled nursing facilities, speech-language pathologists are brought in to address individual issues. But an alternative framing is more powerful.

The collapse of a nursing home deal in Western New York after nearly three years is a prime example of how drawing out and complicating state-level change of ownership processes may “steer operators ...