Massachusetts nursing homes might run out of bed capacity years earlier than a task force recently forecast, according to a former budget chief of the secretariat focused on caring for older Bay ...

The federal government spent an estimated $7.7 billion more on swing-bed care in rural hospitals than it would have if patients received the same care in a skilled nursing facility, a federal watchdog ...

Massachusetts is facing an explosion in its 85-and-over population by 2050 at a time when nursing homes are closing and the ones still operating are struggling to secure higher public payment rates, ...