Oregon lawmakers consider minimum staffing ratios for memory care communities
Minimum staffing ratios would be established for assisted living communities with memory care units under a bill being considered by Oregon lawmakers.
Memory care
Memory care suffers in 4Q 2020; NIC posts takeaways from actual rates report
Memory care discounts in December were at their highest level since April 2020, and the sector had the largest monthly spread of below-average initial asking rates when compared with independent living and assisted living, NIC reports.
Creating an innovative yet practical approach to memory care
Loretto has focused on memory care for decades, and over the past five years, we embarked on one of the biggest undertakings of our history to create an innovative and yet practical solution to a major social problem.
91 groups, individuals praise bipartisan Alzheimer’s-related efforts in Senate
Twenty-seven organizations and 64 individuals told Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) that they are “particularly encouraged” by the lawmakers’ recommendation that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation create and test alternative payment and coordinated care models targeting Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease.
Recommendations to reduce disparities in dementia care due in 2021
Final recommendations on ways to reduce disparities in dementia, which were developed during a stakeholder roundtable sponsored by the Milken Institute Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, will be released in the first quarter of 2021, Nora Super, executive director of the Alliance and senior director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, said Tuesday.
More than 40 percent of assisted living communities do not provide mental health services: CDC
More than 40% of all assisted living communities do not provide mental health services, despite the high prevalence of dementia and depression among residents, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
‘Gossip bots’ one day may serve as personal caregiver assistants to older adults with dementia
A robot named Pepper is being eyed as a solution to addressing overwhelmed frontline healthcare workers and older adults living in assisted living communities experiencing loneliness due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Providers identify 5 key areas for person-centered care of residents with dementia
Several senior living companies were part of a roundtable that helped researchers identify five areas of change and developed person-centered practical solutions to address the unmet needs of people with dementia. The results of their work appear in the November issue of JAMDA, the journal of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Kim Campbell shares ‘rest of the story’ on caregiving in closing NIC conference session
During the late stages of her husband’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, Kim Campbell said she “truly feared I was going to become the second victim of the disease.”
Memory care move-ins increasing; more operators offering rent concessions: NIC
More than half of the operators with memory care units saw September move-ins increase — the biggest jump within this sector since the pandemic began. That’s according to data collected from the most recent Executive Survey results from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care.
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