The Wall Street Journal has found that private Medicare Advantage plans often shed their sickest patients in the final year of life.

Significant year-to-year fluctuations in cholesterol levels without changes in medication may indicate that older adults have a higher risk for cognitive decline or dementia, according to preliminary ...

A new poll shows that grandchildren help many older adults combat social isolation. The University of Michigan’s National ...

There are potential associations between sleep quality, sleep quantity and frailty among older adults, a new study shows.

A nursing home chain hit with what could be a multi-million dollar labor ruling earlier this year asked a federal court Tuesday to block charges against it, citing recent cases that weaken the ...

Recently, an SLP who works exclusively in FEES (Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing) voiced her frustration with ...

Former top US nursing home spokesman Mark Parkinson has released his first book, a "playbook" for achieving clinical and ...

When Hurricane Milton caused the rare cancelation of the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living ...

Maine nursing homes are in limbo less than two months before the state rolls out a new Medicaid reimbursement system.

A new report that lists what it calls the best nursing homes in the US finds that top-rated facilities continuously excel ...

A new study evaluated the risk for delirium after 10 noncardiac surgeries. Of all the operations, those who had an endarterectomy — a procedure to remove plaque from an artery or arteries — had the ...

Frailty accelerated four to nine years before dementia started, and it was positively linked with the risk for dementia, according to four studies conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom ...