Dutch researchers are questioning the notion that more nurses equals better quality of care for long term and post-acute care residents.

Korean researchers believe they may have found a better way to gauge risks for seniors facing surgeries. More than half of all people who go under the doctor’s knife are 65 years or older.

Another of dementia’s horrible, yet hidden, costs has been exposed as researchers in Canada claim to have found a solid link between dementia and hip fractures.

Finnish researchers say they’ve come up with a more intensive, more individualized method to help people recover from broken hips without leaving their homes.

​Researchers have developed a novel gene therapy that reverses the loss of memory in mice models with initial stages of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published Wednesday in The Journal of Neuroscience.

HCI’s award-winning, self-paced programs—delivered either online or via DVDs or CD-ROMs—are videos that feature interactive activities, interviews with nationally known dementia experts, and simulations of real-life situations facing caregivers. The programs require only basic computer or DVD skills.

A research team says it has found a link between high nursing turnover and deficiency notices from federal regulators, but a veteran Baltimore medical director is challenging the team’s premise as fundamentally flawed.

Provider’s 2014 20 To Watch continues this month with profiles of six honorees who—just as they did last month—shine bright as glittering examples of what’s best in long term and post-acute care today.

I was at the center of a scary incongruity, only hours before surgery. I was at the hospital late Wednesday evening, sporting a confident smile that masked my diffident heart. To combat PD, the docs were to plant a sentinel inside my skull—and I had no clue how my brain would accept its new roommate.

German researchers are challenging what they’re calling the “myth” that a senior’s memory problems are proof of cognitive decline.