A new high school training program aims to credential certified nurse assistants even before graduation and roll them directly into paid apprenticeships with ready-and-willing nursing home employers.

Operators have an opportunity to help reimagine the sector’s future, but they’ll have to lead with quality to shift the current narrative and garner more public and political support, the CEO of the ...

Adults older than 50 who received the shingles vaccination experienced a decreased risk in heart disease, dementia and death, according to Ali Dehghani, DO, of Case Western Reserve University during a ...

About 9 in 10 American adults have not heard of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, a newly defined health condition.

Skilled nursing facilities occupy a highly specialized place in the continuum of care. They are not hospitals, yet they provide clinical services at a ...

Even as the medical care needed to treat patients with well-controlled HIV has been significantly streamlined, complex ...

As many as 70% of those living with HIV are expected to be 50 or older by 2030. They often need skilled nursing earlier than ...

In newly released guidelines about COVID-19 vaccinations in long-term care settings, the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) recommended that all residents and staff be ...

Nursing home patients with HIV tend to be younger. They also typically have more comorbidities than the average patient, and ...

Lately, there has been a lot of noise about falls with major injury in nursing homes. And I mean a lot of noise. Why? Falls ...

About 62% of nursing home residents experienced one or more drug-drug interactions (DDI) between 2018 and 2020, according to an October study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics ...

When we think about long-term care, transportation rarely comes up as a top priority. Staffing, survey readiness, quality ...