From McKnight’s Long Term Care news: It’s last call for those who think two drinks a day can stave off functional decline in old age. New research suggests that it’s lifestyle, not liquor, that really helps to determine how we…

Healthcare workers who are in close contact with patients having suspected or confirmed H1N1 flu should use N95 respirators, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in interim guidance released Wednesday. It acknowledged there is a shortage of the…

The elderly’s apparent immunity from swine flu could indicate that the human population, as a whole, has a preexisting immunity to H1N1. Such thinking would help explain why H1N1 symptoms have been generally mild, researchers said Wednesday. Scientists at the…

A story in USA Today reported that more than half of older nursing home residents die within a year of starting dialysis, and nearly another third experience a significant decline in their ability to perform simple tasks, such as feeding…

A hospital has been ordered to pay $2.2 million to a quadriplegic man who got horrific bedsores (pressure sores, pressure ulcers, decubitus ulcers) while staying at the hospital after a car crash in 2005. The 30-year-old former construction worker was…

The head of the state board that oversees Iowa’s nursing home administrators has resigned amid questions over his conduct and the board’s diligence in policing the profession. The chairman of the Iowa Board of Nursing Home Administrators resigned Friday after…