Economic Trends | Regulatory Environment
By: Lana Peck | August 09, 2017
How much of the average retiree’s Social Security income is left after paying for medical care? How does health impact wealth in retirement? How much of a role can home equity play to provide security in old-age?
Economic Trends | Regulatory Environment | Senior Housing
By: Liz Liberman | August 02, 2017
The focus of modern medicine has been centered squarely in the curative camp for a long time. As Atul Gawande put it in his recent New Yorker article, modern medicine is a practice in "rescue medicine," meaning the goal of treatment is to immediately and summarily save the patient. Unfortunately, in life, some diagnoses are not so easily remedied. Though in today's world, a cancer diagnosis is by no means a death sentence, neither is it a free pass. Patients diagnosed with serious illnesses are not always capable of being "rescued;" nor do they necessarily want to give up their autonomy over their own health and quality of life to the health care system. In most cases, patients have their own set of goals for the future, some of which may have nothing to do with medical treatment. Nonetheless, those goals are complicated because of illness and may be omitted from the care plan.
Economic Trends | Regulatory Environment | Skilled Nursing
By: Liz Liberman | June 14, 2017
While major reforms of the Affordable Care Act, such as those proposed by the Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress are sure to have an impact on the post-acute and long-term care industry--if passed--by dedicating all our attention to the big "what ifs", we may be ignoring the trees for the forest.
Economic Trends | Regulatory Environment | Skilled Nursing
By: Bill Kauffman | June 08, 2017
NIC has just released its first quarter 2017 Skilled Nursing Data Report, which includes key monthly data points from April 2012 through March 2017.
