A story appearing in Thursday’s New York Times delivers a largely unflattering assessment of the nation’s assisted living communities. The piece suggests that the sector is growing too rapidly for adequate regulatory oversight to keep pace.

The Department of Labor has extended its comment period for a joint employer rule to late January. But advocates on both sides are hardly waiting to express their views.

Increasing residents’ physical activity may put them in a better mood, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found.

Regulators are withholding evidence in an effort let unsupervised teenagers operate powered lifts, critic have alleged.