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Vaccine Updates: What You Need to Know for Fall 2024
The fall 2024 vaccine season is upon us. This guide includes everything you need to know, including CDC guidance, CMS requirements, and the latest updates for 2024.
Preparedness Can Help Make Disasters Less Stressful
Natural disasters can happen at any time, sometimes without warning. Learn how your pharmacy can help you ensure essential medications are available if disaster strikes.
2024-25 Fall Risk Toolkit
Falls can have serious consequences for seniors. Our toolkit, newly updated for 2024-2025, takes a deep dive into the causes of falls, how your pharmacist can help mitigate medication-related risks, and the steps your community can take to evaluate risk and prevent life-altering falls.
Infection Prevention Guide: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices
Infection prevention and control can be a serious challenge in long-term care settings. This comprehensive guide provides tips on preventing the spread of infections, advice on managing outbreaks, and a checklist to help you stay survey ready.
Hurdling the Challenges of Rising Acuity
As demographics change, staff at senior living communities may find themselves caring for residents with rising acuity — more chronic conditions and a need for a higher level of care. Learn 5 ways your community can prepare for the shift and continue to provide optimal care to your residents.
3 Steps to Increased Staff Satisfaction
Workers in health care are especially prone to burnout. To reduce stress and increase satisfaction, evaluating and enhancing workplace culture is essential. Learn how a focus on values, communication, and mindfulness can be the keys to banishing burnout.
6 Ways to Enhance Seniors’ Mental Health
Over the last few years, mental health diagnoses for people over 65 have skyrocketed. Learn 6 ways your community can help residents stay engaged and connected to reduce the impacts of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
Case Study: Finding a Pharmacy Partner
In this case study, leadership at Volare Health share insights on how the right pharmacy partner can help an organization grow while maintaining high-quality care. Learn how shared values, robust support, and trust all contributed to a successful partnership.
Fall Prevention Using Pharmacogenomics
Learn how pharmacogenetic testing, offered through our partner AccessDx, can help identify risk factors, support medication selection, and optimize dosing to reduce fall risk and protect the safety and well-being of residents.
Managing Acuity Creep in Senior Living
Increasing acuity among residents in senior living communities is a multi-faceted challenge. See how staffing, occupancy, and medication each play a part and learn tips for managing acuity creep in your community.
6 Keys to Keeping Residents Safe from ADEs
Adverse drug events (ADEs) can be severe or even life threatening. Learn how open communication, vigilance, and technology can help keep residents safe from unnecessary harm.
8 Steps to Manage Your Online Reputation
Your online reputation is critical, and everyone plays a part. Follow these eight tips to help ensure prospective residents, families, job seekers, and legislators see your organization in the best possible light.
Falls Risk Toolkit
Understanding the causes of falls and knowing how to prevent them is critical to protecting the health and safety of the residents in your care. Our Falls Risk Toolkit provides valuable information on risk factors and steps you and your staff can take to help keep residents safe.
5 Steps to Manage Aggression in Senior Living
Whether perpetrated by residents, staff, or visitors, aggressive behaviors aren’t uncommon in senior living. Learn 5 tips to help foster a better understanding of aggression and keep everyone safe.
SGLT2s and GLP-1s and Their Role in Managing Heart Health
Some non-insulin medications are contraindicated in patients with certain cardiac conditions — a fact that can make caring for diabetic residents a challenge. Fortunately, two drug classes have shown to be effective alternatives for those with both diabetes and heart disease. Learn more about these treatment options.
Stay Vigilant to Ease Elopement Risks
Elopement is a serious risk; nearly half of all residents with dementia are likely to wander, some repeatedly. Learn how technology, staff training, and a focus on resident safety can help.
How Nurses Can Make the Manager Role a Perfect Fit
Being a great nurse doesn’t always equate to being a great leader. Learn 5 key skills successful nurse managers need along with tips on how to nurture them.
Pain Management: How Communities Can Ensure Safe, Effective Relief
Pain is common in post-acute and long-term care residents, but it’s often undiagnosed and may go untreated. Learn how your community can help provide optimal pain relief while minimizing the risk of complications.
5 Tips to Win the War Against Medication Waste
Thousands of tons of medications are flushed down the drain or wind up in landfills every year. Learn how your facility can reduce medication waste in a cost-effective way while maximizing quality of care.
4 Steps to Successful Deprescribing
Deprescribing is a valuable tool for combatting polypharmacy and improving outcomes for residents, but it needs to be undertaken with care. Learn 4 steps to effective deprescribing and how to start and continue the conversation with residents and their families.
Pharmacogenomics: A Valuable Step in Fall Prevention
Pharmacogenomics can uncover critical information about your residents’ health, including their risk for falls. Learn how this type of precision medicine can help improve resident safety and avoid injuries.
3 Tips to Keep Up with Increasing Regulations in Assisted Living
Rules and regulations for assisted living facilities vary from state to state and are always changing. But one thing is constant – state regulations are increasing. Learn ways to stay on top of updates and find resources to help you and your staff stay informed.
5 Ways Communities Can Bring Youth and Seniors Together
When seniors and youth come together, both groups benefit. Learn 5 ways your community can foster relationships that help seniors feel more connected and give children and teens the opportunity to learn from their life experience.