A comprehensive study of California’s In-Home Supportive Services program found that specialized dementia training significantly improved home care workers’ knowledge and confidence when caring for ...

No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...

Nursing home workers should be trained to provide specific care for dementia patients, whose presence in nursing homes is growing, according to new research. The study, published in Health Affairs on ...

Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dana Mukamel from the University of California, Irvine on her recent paper examining whether residents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are ...

Additional staffing alone will not be sufficient to bridge the quality-of-care and health outcome disparities among nursing home facilities with varying percentages of residents with dementia, ...

Life ended for Thomas Botelho when he was infected with the coronavirus at Paradise Care Cottage and later died on Aug. 4 at the assisted-living facility from complications of COVID-19 and dementia.

Dementia care can be emotionally and physically taxing, with traditional strategies often feeling rigid and limiting. The Improving Care Through Improv program—created and organized by experts from ...

Shifting care needs in Rockwall highlight the growing importance of understanding memory care versus independent and ...

This report by the Alzheimer's Society is drawn from data collected by means of a survey completed by carers of people with dementia who live in a care home, care home managers and care home stuff. It ...

A scheme in Surrey aimed at improving access to dementia care and upskilling care home staff has been called "the first of its kind in the UK" by Surrey County Council (SCC). Two Admiral Nurses, ...