For example, take the story of Poland native Barbara ...

Researchers studied 2,305 patients with heart failure and normal heart rhythm. They gave ...

Participants who performed moderate physical activity and used a computer were 64 percent less ...

The following is a guest blog from Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC:  

With all the interest in patient/resident experience, a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that an overemphasis on satisfaction could have unintended consequences.

In fact, while satisfied patients used the ED less, they also had the highest ...

For the study, Harvard researchers examined data from the long-running Nurses' Health Study of almost 122,000 RNs between the ages of ...

We've compiled our top 10 favorite tweets from accounts we follow on Twitter. Be sure to follow ADVANCE for Long-Term Care Management ...

It was reported last week about a 1.1 billion dollar verdict in a trial in Arkansas over marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. An Arkansas jury found that the drug maker, Johnson & Johnson, fraudulently marketed the drug to doctors without telling them ...

In a recent study, researchers at Bowling Green University have found that an increasingly large number of adults in the baby boom generation, the birth cohort that was born between 1946 and 1964, are single and fail to have important family resources that may aid in their transition to old age. Drs. I-Fen Lin and Susan Brown examined population data from the 1980, 1990 and 2000 census and the 2009 round of the American ...

Even chores like washing dishes and cooking or tasks like moving a wheelchair with your arms count as physical activity--and can help lower risk for Alzheimer's disease, ...

By way of full disclosure I am a Democrat and I vote Democratic. I do not intend this to be a political post, but it will be read that way, and I don't want anyone to think I am refusing to acknowledge my biases. This post is about health care funding and Medicaid.  Nearly every SNF depends on Medicaid to meet its expenses and its payroll, and before long, Medicaid may cease to exist. That is something ...

This article, ...

The following is a guest blog from Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC:

The Affordable Care Act has freed up $3 billion in grant money available to states looking to keep elderly and disabled individuals out of long-term care facilities. New Hampshire will be the first state to receive a grant.

"No one should have to live in an institution or nursing home if they can live in their homes and communities ...

From the Digital Journal comes an excellent treatise on how marketing masked as journalism is being aimed at operators of skilled nursing facilities. 

"For Profit Nursing Homes Pose Threat To Residents Well Being."  In this piece of "journalism" the author - unnamed but apparently affiliated with the Law Office of Scott Warmuth - takes a recent ...

Many individuals mix fitness levels up with outward physical appearance and obesity. In fact, there is a correlation between them, but they also work exclusively of each other as well. For instance, although many individuals who are fit also have lower levels of adiposity or body fat, this is not always the case. In addition, some have a very lean appearance and yet fail to demonstrate substantive levels of fitness. Finally, ...

During the study, which was published recently in the European Heart Journal, researchers followed 1,818 men who survived heart attacks for up to 20 years. The men reported on their ...

It is said that the difference between a fairy tale and a war story is that a fairy tale begins with "once upon a time," and a war story begins with "you won't believe this but..." 

In today's blog, I want to talk a little bit about a case I worked on, and to do that, I need to set the stage. You see, I work for a "plaintiff's firm." Normally that means I am litigating, either at the trial ...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Dr. Garavaglia's latest Gerotalk column. Read the full article here.  

Nursing homes are often associated with the old, the frail, the ...

We've compiled our top 10 favorite tweets from accounts we follow on Twitter. Be sure to follow ADVANCE for Long-Term Care Management by going to @ADVANCEforLTC!

@ahcancal - AHCA applauds CMS initiative on reducing antipsychotics. Dr. Gifford: "As care providers, we need to listen." ...

It was only a matter of time before the cuts in federal reimbursement translated to cuts in nursing home employment, and now comes news that at least some facilities are laying off staff because of cuts in reimbursement and low census. However, the worst may still be to come.

This week, the Supreme Court begins to hear arguments in the consolidated ...

The following is a guest blog by  Brian M. Clifford, Esq.:

"We're guaranteeing homecare workers minimum wage and overtime pay protection. We are going to make sure that over a million men and women in one of the fastest-growing professions in the country don't slip through the cracks. We're going to make sure that companies who do right by their workers aren't undercut by companies who don't. ...

The study ...

If you've followed the mess that Washington made of the budget process during the last fiscal year, you know that "entitlement programs" are headed for the chopping block. But, of course, it depends on who you consider "entitled" as whether those cuts are a good thing or a bad thing.  Many of the pundits frame the "entitlement" issue in terms of welfare and other federal "safety net" programs. 

Similarly, ...

The following is a guest blog from Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC:

I had an opportunity to read the draft of the National Alzheimer's Plan. And I thought for the most part it was comprehensive in its approach. I was dismayed a bit by what I perceived to be a lack of emphasis when it came to the family caregiver.

Here is the section I question:

Strategy 3.B: Enable Family Caregivers to ...