A recent study reveals that many older adults with dementia may be entering nursing homes not because of medical necessity — but because key community services are not meeting their daily needs.

Officials estimate about 90% of adult residential care homes have issues each year, though most of them are minor. Fines for ...

The home wasn't licensed, state officials said, but had provided medical care, like administering medications, to residents, ...

Medicaid covers more than 60 percent of residents in nursing homes, about 20 percent of people in assisted living, and more than half of all residents of long-term care facilities.

Texas has been violating federal law for decades by sequestering individuals with severe disabilities in poorly run nursing homes without offering them alternative living options and services in ...

For now, says the CEO of Care Providers Oklahoma, the most pressing concern for most nursing homes has returned to the gap ...