A new observational study suggests that hearing aids may help lower the risk of dementia, but with a caveat. It found that participants with hearing loss who began using a hearing aid before turning ...

A comprehensive study of more than 4,200 older adults reveals that hand grip weakness significantly affects quality of life, particularly among older women. Researchers analyzed data from the Korea ...

A comprehensive study of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older reveals that nursing home physicians and advanced practitioners who treat more post-acute patients annually do not necessarily deliver ...

Providers are facing a 10% decline in state reimbursement as NC leaders grapple with a $319 million Medicaid shortfall.

Humana must face a class action lawsuit alleging that its use of artificial intelligence to deny post-acute care to Medicaid Advantage beneficiaries became fraud when those automated decisions ...

Hoping to boost resident outcomes and take the stress out of compliance? I'm going to let you in on a staffing trick: treat your dietitian like a rock ...

With thousands of aging Americans on sex offender registries, patients and providers are navigating an increasingly complex access issue.

Hoping to boost resident outcomes and take the stress out of compliance? I’m going to let you in on a staffing trick: treat your dietitian like a rock star. Dietitians play a critical role ...

The president of PACS Group resigned Friday as the massive skilled nursing operator acknowledged it had entered into forbearance agreements to temporarily reduce payments to its lenders and landlord ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday it is freezing its chief nursing home information source for ...

A new study of Veterans Health Administration data shows that the Care Assessment Needs (CAN) algorithm — a tool used to ...

Nursing homes are federally regulated; assisted living is a state thing. Case closed, right? Well, not exactly.