Month: May 2008

Upcoming in July: The Buyers Guide

Once again Long-Term Living’s July Buyers Guide will offer convenient, easily accessible shopping for products and services in long-term care. Read More »

Seize the Day

The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) has had its ups and downs over the years. I’m happy to say, having just returned from the Read More »

Make way for the therapeutic harp

Music touches everyone in a very personal way and offers diverse beneficial effects. Just as a person experiences the various rhythms of life, the Read More »

OPTIMA Award: Lucky Number 13

Attentive visitors of this Web site may have noticed a sudden flurry of activity around one feature, called the OPTIMA Award. It’s our 13th annual Read More »

Facility for vision-impaired residents

The new community can accommodate 38 residents in private and semiprivate rooms, along with community space featuring public and private areas Read More »

Who should be the PACS Administrator?

This is a question that has been asked since the first PACS were installed in the early 1990’s.  There are basically two schools of thought on Read More »

Intellectual demands pay dividends in retirement

Don’t be so quick to complain about your demanding job.   An interesting study from Duke University Medical Center found an intellectually Read More »

NYU dean warns of “perfect storm” brewing in healthcare

Dr. Fulmer was one of 14 members of an Institute of Medicine committee that compiled a report calling for fundamental changes in the U.S. healthcare Read More »

For the Nurses

Greetings to the nurses. For National Nurses Week (May 6-12), I got you this special e-card.   OK, I guess it is really from the American Nurses Read More »

Are you Web 2.0?

Social media are Web-based integrated technologies that facilitate social interaction and the construction of words, pictures, videos, and audio. Read More »

Strange bedfellows: The improbable romance of accounting and nursing, part II

Strange bedfellows: The improbable romance of accounting and nursing, part IStaffingFinding the ideal admission mix, however, is not the only Read More »

An urban high-rise makes green dollars and sense

At first glance you wouldn't take the building to be: (1) a senior living community or (2) an exemplar of “green” construction. The building, a Read More »

Funding cuts uproar continues

Against a backdrop of warnings that a funding crisis looms on the horizon for Medicare, organizations representing skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) Read More »

The future is predictably unpredictable

I talked last column about alternative approaches to financing long-term care. And I admitted that the suggestions offered were, at best, Read More »

Medication errors: Managing the risk

The medication errors experienced by actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins have received a lot of media attention. While hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Read More »

Revitalizing cities with senior-oriented communities

It was a wide-ranging discussion at the Environments for Aging Conference in March—a couple dozen architects, planners, senior service providers, Read More »

Culture change starts from the heart

How does a facility achieve genuine culture change? Is it through the implementation of “person-centered care” or other innovative approaches such Read More »

Medicare Part D: Time to celebrate progress?

It's been a little over two years since the groundbreaking program called Medicare Part D—prescription drug coverage for the Medicare-eligible—went Read More »

Advanced dementia care is vital to quality of life, Part 2

Often people working with those with advanced dementia don't see the importance of doing activities with them because they believe there is no point Read More »

The Future of Assisted Living

Assisted living has become the fastest-growing long-term care option for those who want to live independently with assistance, according to the Read More »

City life

Alert readers may have noticed something—when we're addressing “Environments for Aging” in our new department of that name, more often than not Read More »

More life in their years

It's no secret we're living longer these days. Medical science has made advances that have improved overall health, quality of life, and longevity Read More »

Product Focus

Wound Dressing SilvaKollagen® Gel, “Smart Silver”™, available from DermaRite, is a natural, safe, and effective medical hydrolystate of collagen Read More »

LTL Online

Healthcare workforce too small, unprepared for aging baby boomers, IOM says As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age Read More »

Terror in the sky

I walk a lot. Faithful readers of this magazine already know this, and I'm certain admire me for it. Throughout my fair city, I'm an icon to all, Read More »