Ellen McCarthy

Jan 9, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Ellen McCarthy

Kids keep wanting them. Parents keep buying them. No one is playing with them.

Mar 16, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Ellen McCarthy |Hannah Good

It’s cherry blossom season again, which means more than a million visitors will be pouring into Washington to see the pretty pink trees along the Tidal Basin. We hope you come and have a fabulous time. But if you’d like to ruin the experience for yourself and everybody else, we have some tips on how to be a particularly loathsome cherry blossom tourist …

Feb 8, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Fritz Hahn |Zoe Glasser |Sophia Solano |Ellen McCarthy

Buying flowers can be fraught. Do red roses say too much? Do white carnations say too little? And that’s before you even get to the jaw-dropping price tags. We’re talking about flowers, not furniture — no matter how much cash you drop, they’re not built to last. To see what we could get for our money, we visited five local flower shops anonymously and asked the florists to help us create a romantic arrangement with a budget of $85. Here’s what happened.

Mar 1, 2023 | agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ellen McCarthy |Ruth Lopez |Meghan Hendricksen |Kathleen M Mazor

Abstract Background Regional, facility, and racial variability in intensity of care provided to nursing home (NH) residents with advanced dementia is poorly understood. Materials and Methods Assessment of Disparities and Variation for Alzheimer's disease NH Care at End of life (ADVANCE) is a multisite qualitative study of 14 NHs from four hospital referral regions providing varied intensity of advanced dementia care based on tube-feeding and hospital transfer rates.

Mar 1, 2023 | agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ellen McCarthy |Ruth Lopez |Meghan Hendricksen |Kathleen M Mazor

Abstract Background Regional, facility, and racial variability in intensity of care provided to nursing home (NH) residents with advanced dementia is poorly understood. Materials and Methods Assessment of Disparities and Variation for Alzheimer's disease NH Care at End of life (ADVANCE) is a multisite qualitative study of 14 NHs from four hospital referral regions providing varied intensity of advanced dementia care based on tube-feeding and hospital transfer rates.