For a glimpse of why it's so worrisome to ease restrictions on family visits to nursing homes, look at a photo that appeared on the front page of the Star Tribune last Friday. It shows a woman and her ...

House calls from health care workers can help reduce costly admissions to the hospital or nursing home, according to a new report. The study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs looked at ...

Almost 80% of care home residents have been vaccinated but it is understood there has not been the same take up among the ...

A major new study suggests that Medicare beneficiaries with dementia receive better care when treated by clinicians who specialize in nursing home practice — meaning they provide at least 80% of their ...

After a year of isolation, there's a push to open doors at long-term care homes. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Marcella Goheen would visit her husband at a nursing home every day. As an essential ...

The CDC has issued new guidance to nursing homes nationwide on Friday. The guidance calls for all nursing home visits to be prohibited, except in end-of-life situations. The guidance, which goes into ...

A proposal tucked into the physician fee schedule issued last week includes a new payment mechanism that could improve follow-up care in nursing homes for post-surgical patients, including those with ...

DEAR ABBY: My 98-year-old mother has spent the last eight years in a nursing home. My siblings and I placed her there when her health declined to a point where it was no longer safe for her to live ...