HIGN News
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Optimizing CNAs in Age-Friendly Delirium Care
June 14, 2024 | Shih-Yin Lin PhD, MPH
Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are the backbone to most long-term care organizations. In addition to national efforts to increase CNA wages and benefits and standardize CNA career pathway models currently underway, nursing homes adopting age-friendly care can embrace opportunities to empower and advance the role of CNAs.

Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation: LGBTQ+ Older Adults Perspective
June 11, 2024 | Fidelindo Lim CCRN, DNP, FAAN Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director
On May 3, 2024, the Office of the Surgeon General issued an advisory, sounding the alarm about the devastating impact of the loneliness and isolation epidemic in the United States.

Assisted living innovations offer new hope for older adults with serious mental illness
May 28, 2024 | Kimberly Hadson, BSN, RN, PMH-BC
People with serious mental illness are more likely to be admitted to nursing homes and to have their stays converted from short-term to long-term, even when they have low nursing needs.

Using Technology to Cautiously Connect
May 14, 2024 | Tara A. Cortes PhD, RN, FAAN, Executive Director, HIGN, and Professor, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Every May, the Administration for Community Living leads the nation’s observance of Older Americans Month (OAM).