Civitas Senior Living joins providers mandating employee COVID-19 vaccination
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2021
Civitas Senior Living is the latest senior living owner and operator to announce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees.
Visitation, vaccination, essential caregivers highlight state reopening plans for assisted living
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2021
As vaccination rates increase among senior living residents and staff, states are following the federal government’s lead in relaxing restrictions.
Long-term care staff vaccine hesitancy: Safety, efficacy, newness, distrust top factors
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2021
Safety, efficacy and the newness of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as distrust of the government, were among the major factors that long-term care and other healthcare workers cited as reasons for not receiving...
Growing trend: Doctors and nurses deliver COVID-19 vaccines to homebound seniors
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Joe Jancsurak
Mar 18, 2021
Medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Aging services leaders urge Biden administration to prioritize homebound seniors for vaccines
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Joe Jancsurak
Mar 12, 2021
Four leading aging services organizations this week pressed the Biden administration to prioritize certain vulnerable older Americans, such as homebound seniors and home health care workers, in the vaccination...
Study: One-third of seniors think they have to pay for COVID-19 vaccine
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 12, 2021
One in three seniors thinks they have to pay for the COVID-19 vaccine. That is one of the surprising findings from a new survey conducted by healthcare consultant Avalere Health and healthy solutions company...
Listening is key to addressing senior living staff vaccine hesitancy: NIH senior adviser
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 11, 2021
Combatting vaccine hesitancy in senior living staff members is as easy as listening, according to a senior adviser in the National Institutes of Health.
Increase vaccination uptake with focus on ‘movable middle’: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 10, 2021
Senior living operators looking to increase staff COVID-19 vaccine uptake should focus their efforts on the “movable middle” by making vaccination easy, building trust in vaccine safety and offering...
Rural seniors face additional vaccination challenges
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 10, 2021
In late January, healthcare providers in remote Aroostook County, Maine, needed help getting the word out about the COVID-19 vaccine to its 70,000 residents — about a quarter of whom are elderly. They...
NCAL: Vaccines, state prioritization of long-term care bode well for assisted living communities
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 09, 2021
As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to drop in long-term care settings, calls for reopening assisted living facilities are increasing.