Aug 4, 2020 | News
From NPR.org — Vanessa Ince’s daughter, Alexis, has a rare chromosomal abnormality and autism. Alexis has thrived at her public school in Wailuku, Hawaii, and loves spending time with her classmates. Ince says when the COVID-19 pandemic closed her school in...
Jul 28, 2020 | News
From NPR.org — Almost 300,000 nursing home residents are given antipsychotic drugs each week, even though most have no psychosis to justify it. But since the beginning of the Trump administration, nursing homes have rarely paid a price for even the most serious...
Jul 21, 2020 | News
CNBC.com — Medicare is often referred to as a maze. The various deadlines for signing up may have something to do with that. While turning 65 makes you eligible for Medicare, not everyone will follow the same path to enrollment. Some beneficiaries are automatically...
Jul 14, 2020 | News
AirForceTimes.com — The Air Force has created a new division to consolidate how it provides medical support, family support and help with assignments to families with special-needs members In a July 1 release, the Air Force said the new Exceptional Assignment...
Jul 7, 2020 | News
McKnight’s Senior Living — Eighty-seven percent of assisted living communities and nursing homes participating in a new survey said it is taking two or more days for them to obtain the results of COVID-19 tests of staff members. The results of the...
Jun 30, 2020 | News
The VAntage Point blog/US Dept. of Veterans Affairs — VA health care staff are helping shape COVID-19 treatment guidelines. Both public and private medical teams across the country and around the world are benefitting from the guidelines. The National...
Jun 23, 2020 | News
Kaiser Health News — When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stacy Ellingen, 34, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, lost two of the three caregivers she depends on to dress, shower, eat and use the bathroom. The caregivers — both University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students — returned to...
Jun 16, 2020 | News
SkilledNursingNews.com — As families across the country wait for guidance on how they can safely visit their loved ones living in skilled nursing facilities, one governor has proposed a novel idea: a two-day pass for nursing home visitation. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis...
Jun 9, 2020 | News
SkilledNursingNews.com — Senior housing and care leaders again called on the federal government to aggressively bankroll COVID-19 universal testing in the nation’s nursing homes, arguing that the burden will be ongoing — especially since an already expensive one-time...
Jun 2, 2020 | News
CNBC.com — Americans could use a financial boost. How to get that money into people’s hands has been a hot topic of debate. Democrats have proposed expanding unemployment insurance and giving Americans as much as $2,000 per month to get back on their feet. Meanwhile,...
