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Litigation or threatened litigation in the senior care space is an ever-present facet of running a senior care business. An online panel discussion addressed ways in which boards of senior care businesses can avoid, or at least manage, legal trouble. “In the face of...

Patients with a life expectancy of less than 10 years derive little benefit from screening for breast or colorectal cancer, a meta-analysis of randomized trials suggested. For every 1,000 women screened for breast cancer, almost 11 years would pass before one breast...

A 150-person negotiating committee representing nearly 7,000 Pennsylvania nursing home workers met on Tuesday with representatives of major operators such as Golden Living, Genesis HealthCare, Reliant Senior Care, Guardian Elder Care and Extendicare to begin working...

ROME, Ga. - One Rome nursing home is brand new, but it's got a decidedly "old school" feel about it. Everything, from the blue-green walls to the dinettes, harkens back to the 1950s and there is a good reason for that. The Harbor at Renaissance Marquis is a special...

When shopping for a major purchase, most people these days turn to the Internet to do research or get crowd-sourced information on the product they’re considering, and that’s becoming increasingly true for senior living boomer consumers. As the baby boomer generation...

Vitamin D supplements had no impact on the pain of knee osteoarthritis (OA), researchers reported. In a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D supplements also had no effect on disease progression in patients with symptomatic knee OA,...

An excellent piece in Gawker, of all places, titled Journalism is Not Narcissism, tackles a troubling idea in media at large - how easy it is, with the subtlety of a blunt ax, to blog about one's life. In our industry, this can result in columns that take on a "look...

If you were counting the days until you could buy elusive, super sweet HoneyBells off the back of a refrigerated truck, you're out of luck. Grocery store customers may still find the citrus hybrid of a Dancy Tangerine and Duncan Grapefruit, but the fiery orange,...

Older adults who drink sweetened beverages, and artificially sweetened diet drinks in particular, are at increased risk for depression, a large prospective study suggested.Individuals ages 50 to 70 who consumed four cans or cups of sweetened soft drinks each day had a...

As the “baby boom” generation approaches retirement, the demand for senior care services will rise and will drive industry revenue, according to a study from Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based market research firm. Revenues for senior care services are expected...