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"What's Health" host Dr. Joe Sirven highlights two critical issues in health care that are common yet often overlooked.

A study involving 17 senior communities, including one in Pompano Beach, is part of a effort to adapt virtual reality so it can be beneficial to the health of older adults and lessen the impact of dementia.

But as assisted living concept has become more popular, residents are now older and sicker than in the past, and a panel of experts is calling for more focus on their medical and mental health needs.

The Personal Care Attendants program allows workers without certification to temporarily work at facilities if they meet training and education requirements, but must be certified within four months.

The state Agency for Health Care Administration website shows that only 17 nursing homes and eight assisted living facilities have not fully complied with the requirements.

About 90% of assisted living facilities in Florida have self-reported having a chance to have their staff and residents vaccinated, leaving 10% still waiting for the opportunity.

State health care regulators on Wednesday issued an emergency order freezing admissions at a Brandon assisted living facility accused of not taking proper…

A Chipley man who authorities say fatally stabbed a man at an assisted living facility has been arrested.The Dothan Eagle reports 34-year-old Christopher…

Failures by a Tampa assisted living facility to follow its policies helped lead to an 81-year-old man’s death a state investigation found, according to…

A Marion County woman accused of defrauding Medicaid said in an affidavit she was caught up in living well and "got greedy," the Ocala Star-Banner…