Person-Centered Dining: Needed and Practical
Researchers have long argued that mealtimes should be more than a food service function. Best practice recommendations consistently call for person-centered dining environments that...
Resilience as Infrastructure: What a New Study on Older Adults Suggests About Well-Being
Resilience may be one of the most underused assets we have in aging services. We tend to talk about it informally — “she’s a...
Research Roundup: Week of June 29, 2026
Brief-Worthy This Week
Dementia caregiver support tool shows real benefit, but only on the right outcome measure — a Danish pragmatic trial of a psychosocial...
What Clowns Taught Us About Sustaining Emotional Well-Being in Long-Term Care
There is a tendency in aging services to treat psychosocial programming as supplemental. To treat it as something layered on top of "real" care...
Research Roundup: Week of July 8, 2026
Brief-Worthy This Week
Falls risk assessment gap: A cross-sectional study found that lower hip abductor and ankle dorsiflexor strength — not range of motion —...
Frailty Is Not a Foregone Conclusion: What the Research Tells Us About Physical Activity...
One of the most persistent and consequential assumptions in aging services is that frailty is simply what happens. That it is an inevitable endpoint of...
What Is the Incoming Workforce Bringing with Them into Aging Services?
By the time a new nurse, physician, or allied health professional walks through our doors, their attitudes toward older adults are largely already formed. Those attitudes...
Research Roundup: Week of July 22, 2026
Brief-Worthy This Week
A simple bedside screening tool may catch aspiration pneumonia risk that's currently going unaddressed. A Turkish nursing home study found that a...
Research Roundup: Week of July 29, 2026
Brief-Worthy This Week
A multi-site GWEP evaluation shows what actually moves geriatric screening rates in primary care — interprofessional education paired with team-based workflow support...
When Childhood Hardship Follows Us into Old Age
When most consider what predicts a hard old age, they'll point to things that happen in old age: a fall, a diagnosis, a lost...