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Business briefs, Sept. 28
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 28, 2023
Diversified Healthcare Trust announces personnel changes as it considers next steps in wake of failed merger … Newly formed Senior Living Transformation Company partners with Omega Healthcare Investors...
Care management improves ROI for dementia-related care costs: study
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 28, 2024
Care management significantly improved healthcare costs, utilization and overall return on investment for Medicare managed-care people living with dementia who were enrolled in one dementia care management...
Public policy must address flaws in long-term care financing, experts say
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 11, 2024
Public policy needs to address flaws in Medicaid funding and encourage private planning for long-term care, according to experts speaking Tuesday during a panel discussion hosted by the Paragon Health...
The needs of middle-class Americans over 55 often go unmet: SCEPA
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 06, 2023
Many adults aged 55 and older who have difficulty with daily and instrumental activities aren’t getting the help they need, research associate Jessica Forden of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy...
Monarch Communities, Welltower launch The Current brand with Weymouth, MA, community
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 17, 2023
Marsh, MD-based Monarch Communities, together with real estate investment trust Welltower, opened a “wellness-focused senior living concept” this week in Weymouth, MA. The Current Weymouth is the first...
Companies see financial wellness programs as ways to recruit, retain workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 23, 2023
Employers are seeing financial wellness programs — with offerings such as basic money management tools and financial planning seminars and webinars — as a means of recruiting and retaining workers,...
Growing need for care outside hospital is opportunity for senior living, skilled nursing providers, experts...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 09, 2023
About a third of the $4.4 trillion spent last year on healthcare in the United States was from the people over the age of 65, “and the estimate is that this group will represent half of all healthcare...
Negative attention on social media deters prospective nurses, study finds
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 07, 2024
Social media often paints nursing in a negative light, and that reality is drawing prospective caregivers away from the profession, according to a study released Tuesday by health technology firm ShiftKey.
Asian American and Pacific Island New Yorkers concerned about nursing home care: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 27, 2024
New Yorkers of Asian American and Pacific Island (AAPI) heritage expressed concern over the quality of nursing home care in a recent survey by AARP.