She’s Trying to Stay Ahead of Alzheimer’s, in a Race to the Death
Soon, Irene Mekel will need to pick the day she dies.She’s not in any hurry: She quite likes her life, in a trim, airy house in Castricum, a Dutch village…
Beware of Private Equity-Owned Nursing Homes: Study
Nov. 19, 2021 -- When you have to help a parent choose a nursing home or you need nursing home care yourself, you can consult a healthcare professional, talk to…
New Tally Adds 16,000 Nursing Home Residents Lost to COVID
FRIDAY, Sept. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in U.S. nursing homes appears to have been grossly underestimated. According to a new study,…
Biden Reverses Trump Policy Limiting U.S. Nursing Home Fines
FRIDAY, July 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Biden administration has reversed a Trump policy that limited the size of fines that U.S. nursing homes could be slapped with for…
Reopening Long-Term Care Facilities ‘an Absolute Necessity’
By Judith GrahamThursday, March 04, 2021 (Kaiser News) -- For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s time for them…
Risk of Death From COVID in Nursing Homes: Race Matters
Ouslander agreed. "We all have a social responsibility," he said. "Just because you're not going into a nursing home," he added, "doesn't mean you can't be a source of infections…
COVID Hits Minorities Hardest in Nursing Homes, Too
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Minority residents of U.S. nursing homes and assisted living communities have been especially hard hit in the coronavirus pandemic, two University of Rochester…
1 in 4 Connecticut Nursing Home Patients Had COVID
TUESDAY, Aug. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- When COVID-19 was raging in the Northeastern United States, more than 25% of Connecticut nursing-home residents were suffering from the coronavirus, a new…