Nursing homes that allowed visitors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic did not see higher infection rates, even during one of its most dangerous phases, academic researchers conclude in a ...

The City of Taunton announced a coordinated outreach effort to all nursing homes and assisted living facilities after the ...

Assisted living centers are rare in Mass, but many families still don’t know what they offer — or what they don’t.

Damakant Jayshi The Lincoln County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday reaffirmed its plan to either sell Pine Crest Nursing Home by Aug. 1 or, if the sale ...

As booster rates lag and staff shortages worsen, older Americans in nursing homes remain susceptible to community transmission of COVID.

A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

Former health secretary Matt Hancock says discharging patients from hospitals to care homes in the early stages of the Covid pandemic was "the least-worst decision" at the time. Bereaved people ...

Nursing homes with higher immigrant staff levels may be more resilient in meeting staffing needs during crises, new research shows.

AARP urges new COVID-19 vaccines ahead of winter, especially in nursing homes. Cases and deaths rose again this summer, while vaccination rates lagged.

Prior research and the popular press have anecdotally reported inadequate nursing home staffing levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining adequate staffing levels is critical to ensuring ...