Long Term Care news and information

Some of the nation's largest healthcare landlords are pulling back from nursing homes on concerns they will be less profitable in an era of steep Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
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Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.
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As a former investment banker, Henry Purchase was no stranger to paperwork. But even that did not prepare him for the forms and regulations he faced when moving his mother into a nursing home.
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Occupancy rates at senior-living centers are on the rise as the demand for housing grows and the pace of construction activity slows down, according to a report.
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Too many dying elderly patients are going into skilled-nursing facilities after leaving the hospital, experts say, and Medicare's reimbursement approach is largely the reason.
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A nursing home and an assisted living facility are under scrutiny by state officials and an advocacy group after the Associated Press disclosed that hundreds of elderly and disabled people forced to evacuate by Superstorm Sandy were still sleeping on cots in cramped and sometimes oppressive...
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This month, a Senate panel released a report examining how five nations, including the U.S., are responding to growing ranks of older adults with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
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Looking to bolster sagging revenue, Walgreen Co. plans to launch a national platform targeting hospice providers as soon as next year, an about-face after jettisoning its long-term care pharmacy business two years ago.
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Skilled-nursing facilities received $1.5 billion in inappropriate Medicare payments in 2009, according to HHS' inspector general's office, which found that one quarter of all SNF claims in the period were done in error. The report could lead to increased scrutiny of SNFs by Medicare administrative...
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