Home-based care providers are facing reimbursement challenges on multiple fronts – necessitating layoffs and other tough ...

The nursing shortage is threatening both patients and our healthcare system, and future projections paint an ominous picture. We have all read the news stories or have seen the effects first-hand: the ...

People with Alzheimer’s need more and more help with daily life as their disease advances. Nursing homes and memory care facilities are two residential options for caregivers who are managing serious ...

Many people will need to stay in a nursing home at some point in their lives. How much care they'll need and how long they need to stay, however, can be hard to predict. And unfortunately, Medicare ...

When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.

Jeff Johnson is AARP's Florida Director and Dr. Lindsay Peterson is a long-term care expert from USF who did the research ...

November is National Home Care and Hospice Month. Care at home allows patients to recover in their home with their loved ones or have comfort and symptom ...

Many aging adults would prefer to age in place and stay home longer rather than move to an assisted living facility or nursing home. Most people recognize, though, that living at home alone can be ...

When Lorraine Kaplan broke her hip this spring, there was a debate about how much she could improve after she got out of skilled nursing. Because Kaplan, 89, was now in memory care for dementia, her ...

Carolyn C. Foster ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics and Primary Care at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Caring for elderly parents can be challenging when an emergency hits and families don’t have a care plan ...