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!   @LarryMinnix - My latest post for @LeadingAge: Home, Family and a Homemade Cannon: http://bit.ly/QFOx2a    @SunriseSrLiving - Could ...

''We ... have to start asking ourselves uncomfortable questions about the opportunities we provide residents. Why, even in program-rich environments, do only 20-30% of residents regularly participate in offerings? Are we providing what we can-what is logical based on expectations-or what potential residents really need and want? Do we ...

Whether you're a fan of multiculturalism or stand firmly against it, there's no denying that it's a growing reality in long-term care.The Assisted Living Federation of America spoke to two executives to get their thoughts on the benefits and challenges. Read the article here.

ALFA's annual report of the nation's largest assisted living providers was released last week, with Seattle-based Emeritus Senior Living moving to the number one spot. Click here to read it online. The report reveals, that for the first time since ALFA started compiling the annual list, Sunrise Senior Living, based in McLean, Va., is no longer ...

Health care reform contains countless details and a variety of effective dates through 2020. Here's a peek at some items that will affect LTC: The provision of the act modifies annual market basket updates and adjusts for productivity under Medicare for inpatient hospital, home health, skilled nursing, hospice, and other Medicare ...

The Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes Campaign has developed a Consumer Tip Sheet, together with a more comprehensive Consumer Guide, to provide nursing home residents and family members basic information and 10 questions they should be asking to better understand resident care planning, staffing, important care issues and the ...

Are you a CCRC? You may not want to say so, according to a consulting firm that writes: ''We believe that marketing your retirement community as continuing care retirement community may be one of the worst decisions you could ever make. In fact, I would put as much distance between my retirement community and the term ''continuing care ...

  With Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate special election, health care reform looks dramatically different than it did. Democrats have two options, writes Stephanie Condon on CBS News. House Democrats can pass the Senate bill on the condition that Democrats would make revisions to the legislation through a separate ''fix it'' ...

A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article about integrating palliative care into nursing homes. My research and my sources seemed to agree that end-of-life care wasn't anywhere near where it needed to be in long-term care. In fact, in some long-term care organizations, palliative care had no place at all. Others were trying, but there ...

In the current job climate, many companies are using the climate of fear to cut back on morale-boosting costs and activities. Employees don't need morale to stay with your company, the thinking goes, because they have no choice. But in the article ''Employee Engagement - How to Navigate the Most Difficult Economic Times since the ...