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By: Lara Unnerstall The pandemic. The “great resignation.” And now, in 2024, a tight labor market. All of these health and economic forces have hit senior living operators hard, with those in memory care feeling the pain both acutely and cumulatively. Unfortunately, the problem isn’t going to go away overnight. Recent projections say many more […]
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Cedarhurst Senior Living is expanding its memory care programming while creating a new dementia care-focused training program to improve service to older adults living with cognitive decline. Regional directors began overseeing life enrichment departments at its communities, and developed a new memory care training program based on evidence-based dementia research. The four-hour intensive training program […]
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A new online registry that tracks cases of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in Virginia is now enshrined into law in the commonwealth. The Virginia Memory Project, a collaboration between Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Department of Health (VDH), was codified into law on April 2. The project is meant to track […]
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Behavioral tech platform Rippl has acquired a startup aimed at providing information and services for dementia caregivers in its ongoing quest to broaden and deepen its memory care-related services. Rippl acquired the startup, Kinto, in last month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In the coming months, Rippl will integrate technology developed by Kinto […]
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Morning Pointe Senior Living is going bigger on memory care, with plans underway to expand those services in three of the company’s communities. The expansion comes from an increasing need for memory care services within the markets Morning Pointe serves, according to Co-Founder and CEO Franklin Farrow. The Ooltewah, Tennessee-based company is currently engaged in […]
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By Audrie Martin Senior living operators have for years sought to provide their services at a rate that middle-income older adults can afford. For memory care operators, that is a tough task. Faced with a resident population that needs much more care than is typical in other product types like independent living, memory care operators […]
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In the future, blood tests may play an outsized role in the early diagnosis of people living with cognitive decline. In a newly published story in science magazine Scientific American, neurologist and neuroscientist Suzanne Schindler explored how blood tests are becoming an important tool for the detection and early treatment of Alzheimer’s. When an older […]
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has officially opened a new facility that is aimed at advancing dementia research and treatment. The 20,000 square foot center, located within the UAB Callahan Eye Hospital and called the UAB Brain Aging and Memory Hub, contains divisions in the school’s department of neurology, neuropsychology and cognitive and […]
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A new blood test that could help identify Alzheimer’s earlier from healthcare company Roche has received a Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The test, branded “Elecsys” and under development with Eli Lilly and Company, can aid in identifying the likelihood of amyloid pathology in a person’s brain, according to Laura […]
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If you asked Pegasus Senior Living CEO Chris Hollister what keeps him up at night, he might tell you it’s the ongoing challenges in staffing.That is especially challenging in memory care. But thanks to predictive analytics and quantitative data analysis, improvements are already playing out for the company. Since the launch of Pegasus’ staffing model, […]