CDC advises updated COVID vaccine for everyone over 6 months of age
Jun 28, 2024
Americans 65 and older account for two-thirds of COVID hospitalizations and 82% of in-hospital deaths, yet only about 40% of Americans in that age group were immunized with the COVID vaccines that were...
Monday is standard deadline for McKnight’s Tech Awards
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 28, 2024
Monday is the standard deadline for the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program.
Lawmakers say CMS should ban Medicare Advantage’s use of AI to deny care
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 28, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should consider banning artificial intelligence from being used to deny Medicare Advantage coverage pending a “systematic review,” a group of 49 congressional...
Building a ‘destination workplace’ in long-term care requires diverse investments, active listening...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 28, 2024
Faced with today’s complex array of financial, staffing and regulatory challenges, senior living and other long-term care providers across the care continuum must rely on an equally broad range of solutions,...
Empowering ‘deeply undervalued’ caregivers would improve ‘lifeline for older adults’
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 28, 2024
Direct care workers and family caregivers remain “deeply undervalued” and often overlooked despite calls for investment in the care economy, according to the authors of a new report.
Most continuing care retirement / life plan communities maintained relatively high occupancy rates in the first quarter, with data showing a pattern of stronger occupancy growth in regions reporting smaller...
Welltower codifies ESG initiatives in formal policy
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 28, 2024
Welltower has formalized its environmental, social and governance commitment in a board-approved ESG policy, according to the Toledo, OH-based real estate investment trust’s annual ESG report, released...
Milwaukee Catholic Home reborn as part of new management company, Trinity Senior Services
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 28, 2024
Since 1913, the Milwaukee Catholic Home has provided care for older adults. Still thriving, the retirement community is now part of a new management company known as Trinity Health Services.
Retirement plan confidence shows ‘substantial growth’
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 28, 2024
After periods of rising and falling between 2016 to 2019, individual retirement plan ownership and assets saw “substantial growth” between 2019 and 2022, according to the results of the 2024...
Business briefs, June 28
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 28, 2024
Supreme Court strips SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases … CCRC rent growth affects overall occupancy, occupancy growth … Empowering ‘deeply undervalued’ caregivers would improve...