If we’ve learned anything during the past two years of pandemic, it’s that the senior care sector needs a serious reworking if we’re going to continue to give our loved ones the high level of care and attention that they deserve. Multiple … [Read more...]
Updates to CMS’s Visitation Guidelines
As of November 12th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated its guidelines for visitors to nursing homes. This comes after over a year of rules and regulations that have been viewed as controversial by many, especially … [Read more...]
Is the Care Shortage Getting Better?
Regular readers of this blog know that the care shortage has been a main topic of discussion for years, even before the word “coronavirus” was in our vocabulary. While the pandemic exposed a lot of weaknesses in the care system, including … [Read more...]
COVID-19 and Blood Vessel Damage
We are almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. Although we’ve seen improvements in some aspects, the virus is still very real and still very dangerous. Luckily, we’re learning more everyday about it. A recently published article in the … [Read more...]
Why Organized Care Matters
More and more, we are seeing that one of the main reasons why nursing homes were hit so hard by the COVID-19 pandemic was because of poor organization and oversight. As you’re probably aware, nursing homes accounted for about half of all of … [Read more...]
How to Avoid the Senior Care Shortage
During the pandemic, we saw something happen in the senior care industry that has been brewing for many years. In mass numbers, something that has been a simmering, smaller scale problem for years burst into the international spotlight in a … [Read more...]
The Urgency of Improving Senior Care
We all know that the pandemic has been hard on the senior citizen community. Nursing homes were hit the hardest by COVID-19 and the vast majority of people that lost their lives to the virus were elderly. This has led to a renewed sense of … [Read more...]
Why Senior Care Services Last
The pandemic and the spotlight that it has placed on how senior citizens are treated has provided a jolt to the care industry. Many new companies are entering this line of business, but we shouldn’t expect all of them to provide the highest … [Read more...]
What to Expect from the Care Industry
The senior care industry is growing. Not only is the amount of services like nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and in-home care growing, but other sectors are expanding to include the prevalence of senior citizens within our … [Read more...]
The Perils of Profit Making and Care
More and more often, we are seeing editorial pieces indicating that the major failing of senior care during the COVID-19 pandemic was because of the for profit side of care. Critics of this model say that senior care is too difficult to … [Read more...]
What is Resiliency? Why Does it Matter?
Lately, the concept of resiliency has become a hot topic in the world of trauma informed care. Resiliency is a term that covers a lot of things, but basically, it refers to an inner strength or a desire to keep pushing through something … [Read more...]
Senior Care and the Family
A good senior care service is willing to go above and beyond to help the people that they serve. The last year and change has pushed this concept to a new extreme. COVID-19 and the ensuing pandemic has changed care permanently, and has … [Read more...]