A group of Rochester volunteers is stepping up to fight the loneliness many older adults face during the holidays — and they’re asking the public to help. The Senior Adult Community Engagement Project ...
Nursing home stays and long-term care can cost well over $100,000 per year. To pay for it, families often have to liquidate ...
Homes need help recruiting and retaining staff. They also need stricter regulation to ensure revenues that could go to patient care aren’t diverted to owners. At Highview of Northampton nursing home, ...
When bus driver Garrett Wright clocked in for work well before sunrise Jan. 8, his community was on fire. His usual route ...
My 97-year-old mother receives great nursing home care. Everyone should have that opportunity. Yet, the lives of America’s most vulnerable seniors, including nearly 24,000 here in Minnesota, are at ...
Based on her medical condition, Grace Song had been labeled a fall risk by the Southern California nursing home where the 92-year-old spent a month earlier this year. So it was a surprise to her ...
The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to a ...