Most older adults experience pain, which is linked with significant limitations in their functional capacity. A new study pinpoints which activities are most and least commonly painful for older ...

It had been years since Virginia skilled nursing resident and former Army colonel George Taylor had taken his wife out on a date.

Nursing homes that share as little as 5% of their direct care staff with other facilities are more susceptible to infectious disease outbreaks, with high-occupancy buildings at even higher risk, ...

The Targeted Probe and Educate program aims to lower claim denials, but providers often ask: How did I get here?

During my 45 years in the senior care field, primarily as a nursing home executive and being active in associations, teaching, mentoring, volunteering and ...

Major provider and residents groups are pairing up to ensure the financial strength of continuing care retirement communities, following a slew of nationwide bankruptcies that resulted in millions of ...

Connecticut lawmakers are proposing an increase to nursing home staffing mandate, a move that they said would "boost direct ...

The nation’s second-largest nursing home has earned a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 5-Star Quality rating.

Respiratory muscle strength and balance are strong predictors of walking speed in older adults at day care communities who do ...

Not surprisingly, lower agency nurse use has reduced expenses. More unexpected, however, is the company’s open embrace of managed care partnerships, which it celebrated for providing an inside track ...

Increasing physical activity between the ages of 45 and 65 can help prevent Alzheimer's disease, a report published Wednesday in Alzheimer's & Dementia found.

Daily and hazardous drinking among family caregivers of people with dementia was significantly and independently linked with increased odds of abusive and neglectful behaviors, a new study finds.