Direct care staff education and training led efforts among states that modified assisted living regulations in 2025, ...

The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and ...

Assisted living residence facilities should use a standardized process to track residents' care needs, produce annual safety ...

The federal government does not regulate the nation’s roughly 30,000 assisted-living facilities. Instead, oversight is left to the states, where a patchwork of rules often falls far short of expert ...

Assisted living communities stand to benefit by embracing quality improvement as standard practice for sustainable change rather than as an optional add‑on.

Key recommendations in the report, which was delayed after a deadly July fire in Fall River, include fire safety and ...