May 15, 2013 National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry
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Overall nursing occupancy is near the the eight-year cyclical low, but private-pay nursing units are seeing some recovery.
May 13, 2013 Kathleen Mears
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While nursing homes are a 24-hour-a-day operation, maintenance/housekeeping staff need to schedule loud and/or noisy projects at times that won't limit accessibility to residents or disturb their routines.
May 2, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Several of long-term care’s biggest property owners are shedding their interest in the financially challenged skilled nursing sector.
April 26, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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The International Building Code has been revised to reclassify assisted living facilities, acknowledging their difference from nursing homes and hospitals.
April 26, 2013 National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry
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For the first quarter of 2013, assisted living occupancy showed a decline from the numbers it had been achieving as it recovered from the economic challenges of the past two years. However, absorption and inventory showed gains.
April 16, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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The "culture city" of New Orleans served as the perfect venue for discussing culture change in elder-care building design at the 2013 Environments for Aging conference.
April 12, 2013 Kristin Zeit, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Design
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Proper lighting provides much more than adequate visibility and pleasant aesthetics. A detailed look at light’s effect on circadian rhythms suggests that designers can play a significant role in improving health for long-term and post-acute care residents.
April 11, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Continuing care trends are increasingly involving hospice within the whole care campus, instead of tucking away the hospice in a stand-alone building in a proverbial corner of finality.
April 8, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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As LTC design spaces become more “open,” access control becomes a much more important part of LTC facility strategy. 
March 14, 2013 Anne DiNardo, Senior Editor, Healthcare Design
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How is senior-centric care changing the way hospitals are designed? Anne DiNardo, senior editor of our sister-publication Healthcare Design, asks two design experts about the impacts of geriatric care on the rest of the care chain in this sneak-peek of what attendees will learn at our Environments for Aging conference next month.
March 6, 2013 Stan Szpytek
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Those given the privilege and responsibility of providing care as well as other services to the frail and elderly are placed in a position where their actions must be clear and decisive in times of emergency.
February 14, 2013 Alan C. Horowitz, Esq.
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On August 13, 2008, CMS published a final rule requiring all long-term care facilities to have automatic sprinkler systems installed throughout the facility. The deadline for compliance with the new regulatory requirement is August 13, 2013. On February 7, CMS issued a proposed rule that would extend the August 13, 2013 deadline.
