Results for Assisted Living Facilities

If an assisted living facility has low turnover and high employee retention, its employees are less likely to be overworked and create risks.

Is assisted living right for you? Find tips for choosing the right facility and making the transition easier.

Many long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities, will routinely include arbitration agreements in their admission documents. It is never a good idea to sign such an arbitration agreement.

The challenge: Trying to discern truth from fiction, and marketing from reality, when it comes to assisted living facilities. Assisted living and board-and-care facilities are a popular and rapidly increasing segment of senior housing. However, what many people don’t know is that assisted living facilities are “nonmedical” models of care—not...

Medication errors are frightening reminders about what can go wrong in nursing homes and assisted living facilities when staff does not pay attention. Staff ...

Vulnerable residents entrust nursing homes and assisted living facilities with their medical, personal care, and financial needs. While many care facilities work hard to earn this trust and take go…

What is an assisted-living facility? The wide number of options available makes defining the term difficult. Generally, however, assisted-living facilities primarily serve senior citizens who need…

Across the country, assisted living facilities are evicting residents who have grown older and frail, essentially saying that “we can’t take care of you any longer.”

One can be lonely in a marriage. One can be lonely in a crowd. It's all about the quality of the relationships. People living in assisted living facilities and nursing homes are often lonely. While they live among plenty of people, these are not the people they've built their life around.