Arthritis may increase risk of falling into poverty
By
John O'Connor
Sep 10, 2015
Researchers have identified another arthritis challenge: possible poverty. For women, the risk appears to be three times higher, they found.
Daughter charged in senior living stabbing death
By
John O'Connor
Sep 10, 2015
Police have charged Margaret Machiko Yamaguchi’s daughter, following her stabbing death Monday at a California senior living community.
GAO reports blasts use of antipsychotics
By
John O'Connor
Apr 01, 2015
Reports of excessive antipsychotics’ use in nursing homes have circulated for years.
Monthly fees up 3.17%: Ziegler poll
By
John O'Connor
Nov 21, 2018
Monthly fees are increasing at a 3.17% annual rate, according to a Ziegler poll of more than 230 nonprofit CFOs and financial professionals.
Proposal allowing unsupervised teens to use power lifts hits another snag
By
John O'Connor
Dec 13, 2018
Regulators are withholding evidence in an effort let unsupervised teenagers operate powered lifts, critic have alleged.
National Labor Relations Board takes aim at employee handbook
By
John O'Connor
Dec 19, 2016
Employee handbooks with seemingly innocuous policies can land your organization in trouble with federal officials. At least, that appears to be the message contained in a recent National Labor Relations...
Nurse practitioners hailed as worker shortage solution
By
John O'Connor
Jul 19, 2019
The new president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners is touting her organization’s members as a partial solution to senior living’s chronic caregiver shortage.
House passes bill to more than double the minimum wage
By
John O'Connor
Jul 19, 2019
House lawmakers on Thursday passed legislation that raises the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. The measure faces dim prospects in the Republican-controlled Senate, however.
Future health outlays ‘terrify’ many nearing retirement, study finds
By
John O'Connor
Dec 13, 2016
Why aren’t your prospects moving in? Could be it’s not you, it’s them? Or more accurately, their fear of rising health outlays in the years to come?
Assisted living operators giving lawmakers an earful about HCBS rule implementation
By
John O'Connor
May 23, 2016
Members of the National Center for Assisted Living are meeting with members of Congress today in the nation’s capital.