Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for deat ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is set to roll out risk-based surveys on a more broad basis, with final ...

The world is experiencing a hidden epidemic with kidney disease. More than 850 million people worldwide have some form of ...

In run-up to International Women's Day on 8 March, Dr Andrew Horne discussed what needs to be done in primary care to address ...

The cost for assisted long-term care outweighs the Medicaid reimbursement rate. Across the state, nursing homes are losing on ...

They also face more disadvantages in multiple social determinants of health such as poverty, food hardship, and lead exposure.

Dozens of vulnerable older adults have been sexually assaulted or made allegations of sexual abuse inside Utah’s nursing ...

Changes to a key component of the Patient Driven Payment Model remain in limbo two years after they were first proposed, but federal regulators are still poised to refine the system to accommodate for ...

Fatigue, cognitive changes and sleep disturbances were as important to patients with early Parkinson’s disease as symptoms ...

Understanding what the US spends to treat mental health and substance use disorders (SUD) is important for understanding spending patterns and informing health policy. In this study, we determined ...

As many as half of all nursing home patients may benefit from respiratory therapy, given rising complexity and common conditions such as COPD, congestive heart failure and other chronic breathing and ...

An ovarian cancer survivor reflects on community, advocacy, and living a life shaped by purpose—not just diagnosis.