Brett Beldock was thinking about El Morocco and the Monkey Bar when she designed the interiors of a new assisted living facility, the Lodge at Otter Creek.

Advocates for nurses are lobbying for increased penalties for violent patients and urging that all incidents be reported.

A proposed immigration law, if passed, could affect the market for foreign home care aides in the country.

Geriatric care managers help connect families with services and options for elder care.

Workers at a nursing home in the west Bronx have been on strike since Feb. 20 after their employer stopped paying their health insurance premiums.

Nursing home inspectors routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients, Congressional investigators say.

As medical advances have allowed patients who might have died as children to survive into adulthood, the health care system has yet to develop institutions for them.

Slow medicine, approach that encourages less aggressive and less costly medical intervention at end of life, is increasingly available in nursing homes; elderly living at home or in assisted living rarely have this option; slow medicine is grounded in research at Dartmouth Medical School; some elderly people and their children want to do everything possible to stay alive and doctors are paid to perform procedures, not to discuss whether they should be done; elderly with chronic diseases are cos...

The county’s plan to close the nursing home it owns to save money is receiving opposition.

While Suffolk County is considering whether to dispose of its nursing home, Nassau County is making plans to build a $100 million replacement for its 47-year-old A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility in Uniondale.

A yearlong study is raising questions about the widespread use of antibiotics in nursing homes to treat infections in patients with terminal dementia.

The residents of Harbor Place, the assisted-living center in Florida where a New York University film school student lived and filmed for a month in the summer of 2005, seem more genuinely curious about him than he does about them.

A couple’s dog therapy program on Staten Island brings a bright spot into days often marred by pain, age and illness.

Thousands of elderly Americans on fixed incomes face a bitter winter, with declines expected in fuel assistance.

Connecticut’s second-largest operator of nursing homes filed for bankruptcy protection this week, amid accusations that it shortchanged patients.

Heartbreak can happen at 80, but probably without the rage against the dying of the light.

Congressional hearings were prompted in part by concerns that quality at nursing homes was declining as large chains were acquired by private investment groups.

The use of antipsychotic drugs to tamp down the agitation, combative behavior and outbursts of dementia patients has soared.

Researchers who put brighter lights into nursing homes have found that residents with dementia appear to suffer fewer symptoms.

Fire at nursing home in Moscow kills at least 31 people; center did not have alarm that could notify firefighters; fire is latest in string of blazes in Russia that has caused many deaths and underscores patterns of negligence and poor governance