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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? The problem is the tremendous heterogeneity in services offered and quality of care. If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric?

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Poem for Older Adult Senior Communities

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Frances Shani Parker Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.