No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...

People living with dementia are less likely to be admitted to high-rated nursing homes compared to people who don’t have the disease, a new study finds. Researchers looked at admission to nursing ...

Additional staffing alone will not be sufficient to bridge the quality-of-care and health outcome disparities among nursing home facilities with varying percentages of residents with dementia, ...

Dr Karen Harrison Dening reflects on her 50-year nursing career and how dementia care and policy have changed in that time ...

Between 2018 and 2022, the percentage of deaths related to dementia in nursing homes and long-term care communities declined compared to the equivalent in private homes and hospice, according to a new ...

For many nursing home residents, a trip to the hospital can be a jarring experience - one that leaves them confused and stressed. Yet avoidable transfers happen far too often, not only disrupting a ...

The need to move a loved one into a nursing home or assisted living facility often comes suddenly — after a fall, a medical crisis or the loss of a caregiver ...

Dementia is hard on the person suffering from it, but those who care for them have a tough row to hoe as well, said Karisti ...

Nearly 10%of Wisconsinites over 65 are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and a new “dementia village” coming to Fitchburg ...

Overprescribing warning letters modestly cut the use of antipsychotic medications without apparent repercussion in people with dementia, a secondary analysis of a randomized trial indicated. Compared ...

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 8, 2024 — Additional staffing alone will not be sufficient to bridge the quality-of-care and health outcome disparities among nursing home facilities with varying percentages of ...