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InternationalLiving.com is looking for a single person or couple willing to spend a month road-testing an overseas retirement in colonial Cuenca, Ecuador – a destination that earned the top spot in their 2012 Global Retirement Index, a listing of the world’s best retirement havens. According to InternationalLiving.com’s want ad, entrants “Must be willing to relax… explore a new place… shop the local farmers and craft markets… take walks… go to concerts… attend festivals… maybe try a Spanish class… enjoy local [...]
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Paula Span explores a topic in her weekly New York Times post that touches on something discharge planning and case managers know all too well! She writes, "Nursing homes are heavily female, like[...]
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An emergency department visit may triple the risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections for nursing home residents, researchers found. The rate of new acute respiratory or GI infections was[...]
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The nursing-home industry is piggy-backing off the president's State of the Union speech to draw attention to the state of long-term and post-acute care in the United States.
The American Health[...]
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Effective treatments for Alzheimer's by 2025? That's the target the government is eyeing as it develops a national strategy to tackle what could become the defining disease of a rapidly aging[...]
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Seabury Resources for Aging has named Chuck Thornton as Director of Marketing and Admissions at Seabury at Friendship Terrace. Located in Northwest Washington, Friendship Terrace offers affordable[...]
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Potomac Valley Nursing and Wellness Facility has been at its location in Rockville since 1961. Potomac Valley Nursing and Wellness Facility wants to add a 15,222 square-foot, two-story addition to its[...]
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Although modest in scale a Vanderbilt University study was the largest trial ever performed looking at how nicotine might improve memory.
According to lead researcher Dr. Paul Newhouse,"There were[...]
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released in December the “first nationally representative survey” of residential care facilities to provide an overview of their role in the[...]
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