A person’s last days are emotionally taxing whether they are spent at home or in a nursing home. Contrary to public belief, both settings also present financial challenges to the person and their loved ones. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal evaluates the financial burdens that can come with caring for a person and [...]The latest nonprofit organization to receive Pathways to Greatness recognition from LarsonAllen and LeadingAge is Foulkeways at Gwynedd in Pennsylvania. The annual program seeks to identify the primary attributes of high-performing aging-services communities. Foulkeways at Gwynedd, which accepted the award in Los Angeles at the most recent association annual meeting, was singled out for demonstrating [...]Mark your calendars. From April 11-13, join LeadingAge in our nation’s capital for three days of education and advocacy opportunities focused on building strategic partnerships that will expand the world of possibilities for aging. This year’s education program is tailored to address today’s challenges and opportunities in aging services. Session topics include: Emerging integrated care delivery [...]January 25 wasn’t just a big day for us here at LeadingAge. On the same day, our Vermont association hosted a statehouse celebration to commemorate their new name: LeadingAge Vermont. Despite the snowy weather, many key committee chairs, legislators and members of Governor Peter Shumlin’s Administration joined the group LeadingAge Vermont members at the breakfast celebration. Later [...]This post features a daily digest of news related to aging services as well as LeadingAge, our state partners and members. Have you seen a story that we should share? Please post in under “comments.” Nursing Homes McKnights, January 31, 2011, “Critics of Nursing-Home Hospices Suspicious Of Revenue” Health Care Overhaul Medical News Today, January 31, [...]During the next few months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will start collecting and analyzing data from different skilled nursing facilities, including two members in Alabama and Florida, for a pilot test that makes important changes to Section Q (Return to the Community) of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0. Fran Savard from LeadingAge Ohio also [...]We were very pleased to receive the Kaiser Family Foundation’s announcement of a policy briefing at 10 a.m. Monday, February 7, 2011, to examine provisions in the health reform law designed to improve long-term services and supports. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will offer the opening remarks, which is a wonderful opportunity [...]Each of has something we dream of doing. Whether it’s taking a trip to Australia, going skydiving or something simple like enjoying your favorite foods with family and friends, it’s never too late to fulfill these dreams. Just ask the volunteer auxiliary members at Saint Simeon’s Episcopal Home in Tulsa. This group sponsors a “Tree of [...]This post features a daily digest of news related to aging services as well as LeadingAge, our state partners and members. Have you seen a story that we should share? Please post in under “comments.” LeadingAge in the News SmartMoney Magazine, January 27, 2011, “The Confusing Costs of Continuing Care” Long-term Care McKnight’s Long-term Care News, [...]Robyn Stone, executive director of the LeadingAge Center for Applied Research, points out that the Department of Labor announced on January 20, “a solicitation for grant applications under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program. The Labor Department will award approximately $500 million this year through the program and a total [...]
Surrogate decision makers for dementia patients often opt for feeding tubes without having realistic expectations about outcomes, according to a small prospective survey study.The ratio of two beta-amyloid protein species in plasma was associated with subsequent cognitive decline in older patients, researchers said.
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