May 16, 2012
Population-based evidence that the mutations increase with age and may be an early marker in detecting cancer.
May 16, 2012
Clinical trial set to begin among a population guaranteed to get Alzheimer's.
May 15, 2012
PSS World Medical looks to acquisition, divestiture and a revised business strategy for future growth.
May 15, 2012
Omnicare, the nation’s second largest LTC pharmacy provider, has agreed to a $50 million civil settlement with the Department of Justice following a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation of complaints
May 15, 2012
HHS introduces ambitious national plan focused on prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's
May 14, 2012
Many older adults with dementia live and die in community settings rather than nursing homes, contradicting the commonly held view that most people with dementia eventually move to nursing homes and die there.
May 11, 2012
By 2020, direct-care workers in home- or community-based settings are projected to outnumber direct-care staff based in facilities.
May 11, 2012
The Medicare Regulatory Reform Rule is projected to produce savings of $200 million in the first year.
May 10, 2012
Skilled nursing facilities are gearing up to absorb nearly $800 million in Medicare cuts in 2014, according to a new analysis from Avalere Health and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care.
May 10, 2012
A study by the Research Triangle Institute explores the reasons associated with CNA injuries
May 9, 2012
There is an unemployment-mortality link, but the relationship is counter-intuitive.
May 9, 2012
The Health Care Innovations initiative encourages organizations to develop ideas to improve healthcare quickly and affordably.
May 9, 2012
Food shortages, squalor, leaky roofs and broken air conditioners were the standard, not the exceptional, conditions in three Atlanta-area nursing facilities. Former owner convicted of Medicare/Medicaid fraud.
May 8, 2012
The findings suggest that depression that begins in late-life may be an early symptom of Alzheimer's disease, while chronic depression over the life course may reflect a long-term process of changes to blood flow in the brain associated with increased risk of vascular dementia.
May 8, 2012
Failure to notify residents or family members in skilled nursing facilities before administering antipsychotic medications may constitute charges of elder abuse for nursing homes.
