Cleaning is an essential part of a senior care facility’s daily operations, and it plays multiple critical roles. The pandemic highlighte...
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How Senior Care Facilities Can Safely Welcome Visitors BackThe COVID-19 pandemic forced senior care facilities to alter or even stop visitation for the safety of their staff, residents, and visitors. As these facilities start to welcome visitors back, they face multiple challenges.
Protecting Senior Care FacilitiesExplore the needs of senior communities in the era of COVID-19, the current limitations on safety, and how adopting kiosk technology can provide significantly higher safety for senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities.
Safely Welcoming Visitors to Senior Care FacilitiesAllowing visitors back into these buildings is full of new challenges, and the following tips can help facilities to keep residents, staff, and visitors safe as they start to open up their doors again.
Knock, knock. Do You Know Who’s Entering Your Community?Learn why over a dozen senior living and skilled nursing communities have replaced the manual paper logbooks with a streamlined sign-in and health screening process for all visitors, staff, third-party caregivers, and residents who enter and exit the building.
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Technology continues to play a key role in the senior care industry, particularly as we move into the post-pandemic period. iN2L + LifeLo... Read More »
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The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), collectively representing more than 14,000 nurs... Read More »
In late January, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), in the Department of Health and Human Services, released the second report in a s... Read More »
Security is always a concern in senior care settings, but memory care settings face some additional security concerns. From addressing fa... Read More »
Memory care program activities are an important part of providing quality resident care. Identifying, implementing, and evaluating new ac... Read More »
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For many people, animals evoke fond memories of beloved pets. Bringing a dog into a room, for example, can prompt conversation, engagemen... Read More »
In January, Ziegler released the findings of its December 2022 survey on technology spending among senior living organizations. Ziegler h... Read More »
In January 2023, the Parkinson’s Foundation announced the Community Partners in Parkinson’s Care Program. The program is designed to prov... Read More »
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Sustainability is key to protecting the environment and preserving the world for future generations. It’s a hot topic in many different f... Read More »
Part 2 of a 2-part series on addressing the loneliness epidemic in senior care In part one of this article, we introduced you to several ... Read More »
From social media marketing to content marketing, senior care communities have many potential tools available to generate leads, build ce... Read More »
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In the Dec. 13, 2022, Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) call and slide set (beginning on slide 44), the Centers for Di... Read More »
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Every day, senior care facilities have to meet strict standards, including state and federal regulation requirements. While such a focus ... Read More »
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When it comes to memory care, prioritizing personal caregiving offers residents many benefits. It’s an approach that Ashley Briggs, memor... Read More »
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