National Nursing Home Survey 2004 

This is the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey by the National Center for Health Statistics regarding nursing homes.  This survey includes information on characteristics of nursing homes, staffing, and management as well as on programs and services and employee vaccinations.  This is an important survey that is only released every few years; the last report was from 1999.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nnhsd/Facilitytables.htm

Memory: Forgetting Is the New Normal
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1738621,00.html

With better scanning equipment and knowledge of brain structure and chemistry, investigators are steadily improving their understanding of how memory works, what makes it fail, and how the problems can be fixed. This article discusses new findings in the field and the relationship between memory and aging. It also talks about the role of the hippocampus in memory.