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.

Traumatically injured seniors appear to be at a higher risk for death when they’re treated at hospitals that also treat high volumes of younger patients, a new study has found.

Canadian researchers believe they may have found another clue to how Parkinson’s disease ravages the human body after discovering that two genes linked to the disease appear to disrupt a cell’s ability to repair itself.

The poorest elderly were nearly twice as likely to be sent back to the hospital with preventable conditions when they transferred from skilled nursing centers to home- or community-based care, a new study by Brown University researchers has concluded.

Low testosterone and depression each may make it easier for elderly men to fall, a team of Japanese researchers have found.

The Obama administration has formally scrapped the so-called “improvement standard” for care, but the new rules on Medicare eligibility still leave questions open on such matters as therapy and whether contractors will still be held to the old standard.

Long term and post-acute care advocates are taking aim at what they say is the dangerously slow pace of Medicare’s therapy reviews.