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Low-tech treatments and prevention efforts help lower costs

Low-tech treatments and prevention efforts for pressure ulcers — such as pressure-reduction foam mattresses and foam cleansers — could lower costs for long-term care facilities, a Canadian study has found. “Something relatively easy” that will have “a...

Study reveals that ultraviolet light eliminates deadly hospital-acquired infections

Researchers say they nearly eliminated deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a study encompassing 50 patient rooms at two medical facilities by using a specific spectrum of ultraviolet light. Short-wave ultraviolet radiation has been used to sterilize...

UV Light Blasts ‘Bad Bugs’

A portable device that emits UV-C light destroyed vancomycin-resistant enterococci, Acinetobacter, and Clostridium difficile from rooms where patients infected with those bacteria had been housed, results from a small study demonstrated. “There is...

Minnesota Veterans Adult Day Care Center

The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs offers a unique program, with the goal to keep veterans in their own homes. View the video above of a November 2013 broadcast on KSTP 5 Eyewitness News to learn more about the Minnesota Veterans Adult Day Center, where a...

An Impactful “Dementia Experience”

At the 2014 National LeadingAge Convention, attendees could participate in a “Virtual Dementia Tour®” provided by Second Wind Dreams®, where one could experience, to a certain extent, the challenges people with dementia face in their daily...

ABC Nightline Video: Virtual Dementia Tour

The Virtual Dementia Tour was featured on ABCs Nightline in July 2010. View the Nightline video above to watch Primetime's Cynthia McFadden participate in the tour, along with Blane Wilson, whose mother Lawanda is fighting an ongoing battle with Alzheimer's. After the...