Private equity nursing home owners targeted in any legal cases over the last decade would effectively be blocked from buying or operating additional facilities in Minnesota under proposed legislation.

A recent event brought a musical group, the Care Chords, to AristaCare at Cedar Oaks for a celebration of Holi. It was a packed house with nearly 100 residents and their families in attendance, ...

Swapping sedentary behavior (SB) or sleep with light physical activity (LPA) — even in small amounts — is linked to better physical and mental health in Chinese older adults. That is according to a ...

Overall, family caregivers who met with advance care planning (ACP) specialists reported positive experiences in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

I am obsessed with the HBO hit “The Pitt.” Each season of the series follows emergency department staff through a single 15-hour work shift at the ...

Changes to a key component of the Patient Driven Payment Model remain in limbo two years after they were first proposed, but federal regulators are still poised to refine the system to accommodate for ...

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.

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 ...

As many as half of all nursing home patients may benefit from respiratory therapy, given rising complexity and common conditions such as COPD, congestive heart failure and other chronic breathing and ...

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 ...