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Our top 20 Twitter feed recommendations

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, July 30, 2009

As social networking and micro-blogging Web sites become a popular resource for people looking for up-to-the-minute information, many long-term care providers, associations, and professionals are turning to Twitter (www.twitter.com). Twitter allows its users to update their friends, colleagues, customers, or any interested individual about news, new products, or other information they would like to share. We use Twitter to alert our followers about long-term care regulations and to share industry news and helpful tips.

In doing so, we have come across a number of informative Twitter feeds related to long-term care. The following is a list of our top 20, in no particular order. Each includes a brief description: 

• Donnawcei – Tweets about wound care
• SeniorsResource – Tweets about providing care information for seniors and their caretakers
• Medpac – Tweets about health care reform
• payersproviders – Tweets about the health care industry and business policy
• consultdoc – Tweets about health care finance and patient quality
• choiceeldercare – Tweets about long-term care options and insurance issues
• lbramly –Tweets about caring for those with Alzheimer’s disease and/or dementia
• AMDALTCMedicine – Tweets about long-term care medication news and health care reform
• agooddaughter – Tweets about long-term care management
• ElderCareRN – Tweets about providing care for seniors and the long-term care industry
• ahcancal –Tweets for the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living about a variety of health care issues, including news involving long-term care
• AlzheimersInfo – Tweets about caring for those with Alzheimer’s disease and/or dementia
• ASCpolicy – Tweets about the need for affordable improvements in long-term care and assisted living
• aarpbulletin – Tweets for AARP, covering health care reform and other related topics
• mjimenez13 – Tweets about Medicare
• nih_gov – Tweets for the National Institutes of Health about medical technology, research, and advances
• NewHealthDialog –Tweets about health care reform, particularly regarding cost, quality, and coverage 
• WSJHealthBlog – Tweets for the Wall Street Journal Health Blog about health news, analysis, and business
• ALZHEIMERSread – Tweets for the Alzheimer’s Reading room about resources available in caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and/or dementia
• daccarte – Tweets about enhancing the quality of life for seniors

Follow MDSCentral on Twitter for quick updates about the day-to-day happenings in the long-term care industry.

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