As the population ages, long-term care resources will be more in need. Older adults will comprise an increasingly larger portion of our total population, moving from 13 percent of our current population to approximately 20 percent over the next few decades. With this burgeoning growth in the population will come an increasing need for various forms of long-term care. However, a recent report paints ...

The expert committee that wrote the new report, which was sponsored by the CDC, concluded that:

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1. Alzheimers Support ?@SandyAlz - Pat Summit Meets a diagnosis of Dementia Head-On - Alzheimers ...

Any entity providing care to Medicare and Medicaid recipients must be ...

In a randomized-controlled trial of 15 participants with elevated blood ...

A novel exercise program known as Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ), has been demonstrated to hold possibly important benefits for those that suffer from dementia. Most forms of dementia, including dementia of the Alzheimer's type, are usually treated with medications to help slow the progression of the disease. However, many older adults suffering from dementia fail to demonstrate ...

Researchers examined 126 adults in their 70s who didn't regularly exercise and who had felt that their cognitive skills had declined recently. They randomly assigned participants ...

Assisted living operators hold a unique niche in the long-term care market. Offering more than independent living, but not quite skilled nursing, assisted living can be the best of both worlds for residents who need a little help with activities of daily living.

I've been away from long-term care conference travel for a little over a year, so I am excited to meet with all of our assisted living members at ...

Wouldn't it be great if you could stop the spread of C. difficile at the front door? Since carriers can be asymptomatic it can be challenging to initiate the correct precautions without first identifying carriers. A new study attempted to identify whether carriers could actually be identified at the door - upon admission.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ...

The day I attended ...

Through virtual reality and brain lesion experiments, Penn State researcher Robert Sainburg and colleagues revealed a new model ...

At a time when long-term care providers are doing their best to prevent hospital admissions and re-admissions, a new study from Harvard Medical School came up with some disturbing results. The study, which was just published in JAMA, reveals that hospitals can make more money when surgery results in complications, ...

Sometimes managing people is like that, and even in an age where everyone threatens to sue if you fire them, cleaning house ...

By analyzing data, researchers found that more than one in five seniors on Medicare in the South received prescriptions for medications that doctors have ...

By studying dietary and health data on 138,000 women participating in a large continuing study, researchers collected data on walnut consumption, and followed the women for the next ...

Even if you don't reveal a resident's name, if you disclose on public social media ...

The study, led by an economist at the RAND ...

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Of the care delivered in SNFs, much of it is delivered in non-profit nursing homes operated by charitable organizations including churches and Catholic religious orders. The other non-profit type of nursing home is the public facility funded by taxpayer dollars.

In a recent newspaper editorial a ...

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The number of deaths from Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia continues to increase at a staggering rate. Currently, one in every three older adults dies from Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. 

More astonishing is that while other major forms of disease have decreased, deaths from AD and other dementias has increased dramatically. 

Since 2000, deaths from HIV ...

Two new reports were released this week that show the devastating effects of Alzheimer's and dementia.

The Alzheimer's Association reports that one in three seniors dies with, not of, dementia. The report points out that dying with Alzheimer's is not the same as dying from it. But it can speed someone's decline by interfering with their care for heart disease, cancer or other serious illnesses. ...