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...
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 —...
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 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...
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...
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...