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A revolution in assisted living: This is what the new world of the third age looks like

With the increase in life expectancy and the development of the modern world – today’s assisted living residences offer a vibrant, communal, independent, and well-designed living experience.

 Bayit Balev, Petah Tikva
  EU hosts holocaust event at Herzliya retirement home

EU hosts Auschwitz liberation event at Beit Juliana

  Sompo and TytoCare representatives, together with the Ministers of Economy of Japan and Israel, at the agreement signing ceremony.

Israeli tech firm partner to improve elderly healthcare in Japan

Elderly Israelis wait for their turn to vote

An unhealthy lifestyle may land you in a nursing home - study


Some 50,000 elderly people in need of intensive nursing in Israel

Israel's National Insurance Institute recently gave an overview over the situation of the nursing care for the elderly in Israel.

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Nurse cut off dying man’s foot for taxidermy display

The hospice nurse claimed to have amputated the foot to make the patient more comfortable, although her coworkers testify otherwise.

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This is why you shouldn't bring strippers to a nursing home

After causing an uproar on the internet, the organizers apologized and said that they were shocked at what they heard and "did not expect this to happen."

 Illustrative image of a nursing home.

Geriatric hospitals can now accept foreign workers as caregivers

The change was proposed by the Health Ministry, given the severe shortage of geriatric hospital workers, complaints of poor training and some abuse of patients.

An elderly woman walks through a corridor of a retirement home as visits have been restricted due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) concerns, in Grevenbroich

COVID-19 in Israel: All you need to know on the new Green Pass policies

Here is an FAQ on the new coronavirus policies in Israel.

A woman shows her green passport at the Khan theater in Jerusalem on February 23, 2021.

COVID-19 can survive in dust for up to a month - study

They found that almost all of the dust samples (97%) contained undecayed SARS-CoV-2, the disease that causes COVID-19, up to four weeks after collection using PCR tests.

ICHILOV HOSPITAL team members wearing protective gear earlier this year as they work in the coronavirus department of the Tel Aviv hospital.

White House: Probe into Cuomo allegations should be quick, thorough

"New developments seem to happen every day. We find them troubling. The president finds them troubling, hard to read," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.

NEW YORK GOV. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a COVID-19 vaccination site in New York City on Monday.

Nursing Home: Are you ready for your parent transitions to the next phase of their life

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Advisers of New York's Cuomo altered report on nursing home deaths

The Health Department's data put the death toll about 50% higher than the figure then being cited publicly by the Cuomo administration.

A nursing home worker and a medic put on personal protective equipment while preparing to transport a patient into an ambulance at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, the long-term care facility linked to several confirmed coronavirus cases in the state, in Kirkland, Washington, US.

Nursing home outbreak after residents receive vaccine, no serious symptoms

They received their final doses of the Pfizer vaccine by January 25.

Los Olmos nursing home resident Araceli, 96, receives the first injection nationwide, with a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Guadalajara, Spain, December 27, 2020.

98-year-old Holocaust survivor is first to receive vaccine in Greek city

The city's vaccine campaign only began on Tuesday.

Los Olmos nursing home resident Araceli, 96, receives the first injection nationwide, with a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Guadalajara, Spain, December 27, 2020.