LOS ANGELES: The assisted living business model is coming to the end of its life cycle.
The product was the innovation of boomers seeking better outcomes for their veteran parents than the “nursing home stalags” that were a product of a world war, a depression Read More »
Assisted living business model coming to end of its life cycle
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Skilled nursing home design still creating tomorrow’s ‘stalag’ institutions
MIAMI: Skilled nursing home design is still creating the institutions of tomorrow. The prison layouts are primarily to support the efficiency dictates of staff and management.
Central corridors, nursing stations positioned like airport control towers, tiny windows, beds facing corridors for quick observation, artificial light Read More »
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Worldwide push to reduce antipsychotic drug use in care settings
PHOENIX: A two year trial has established that antipsychotic drug use in skilled nursing homes can be reduced. The second stage will aim to quantify the reductions. The target is 25 percent by the end of 2015, and 30 percent by the end of 2016. Read More »
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Think tank delivers vision of residential care in 21st Century
NEW YORK: A report has been compiled by a group of academics, experts and practitioners from around the western world setting out their vision for housing with care in a 21st Century care system.
The report canvasses new housing forms and how existing Read More »
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