Before we can develop strategies to keep caregivers in the home care field, we need to understand why they are leaving.
California’s ‘Master Plan for Aging’ offers strategies for attracting home caregivers
By
Joe Jancsurak
Feb 19, 2021
California’s Department of Aging recently released a 10-year “Master Plan for Aging.” The blueprint aims to guide state and local governments, the private sector and charitable organizations toward...
COVID relief package needs to address pandemic ‘dangers’ to older adults, provider group says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 16, 2021
LeadingAge is stepping up calls on Congress to adopt a COVID relief package addressing the dangers that the pandemic poses to senior living residents and other older adults.
Our Great Place to Work journey — before and after COVID
By
Warren Spieker
Jan 11, 2021
When we created Continuing Life to support a growing group of continuing care retirement communities, we invested in being a great place to work. It took a few years of work, and we’re not perfect,...
Top 2021 senior living challenges: Clinical risk management upgrades, systemic understaffing issues
By
Peter Reilly
Gigi Acevedo-Parker
Jan 07, 2021
The COVID-19 vaccine started to roll out across the United States in mid-December with assisted living and nursing home staff members and residents, as well as other healthcare workers, first in line for...
Recovering from emotional, economic effects of pandemic will dominate senior living in 2021
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 04, 2021
Virus-related matters will dominate the actions of senior living owners and operators for the time being, industry leaders told McKnight’s Senior Living.
Time is now for coordinating employee vaccine process: workplace safety expert
By
Amy Novotney
Dec 08, 2020
Whether long-term care operators will mandate that their employees get a COVID-19 vaccine once one is available has been a topic of much discussion over the past several weeks.
Investment in people yields success in senior living: NIC panelists
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 08, 2020
COVID-19 is exhausting. That was the consensus of speakers focusing on issues related to the senior living workforce during the 2020 National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference,...
Paying direct care workers a living wage would reduce turnover, increase productivity by at least $5.5B:...
By
Amy Novotney
Sep 09, 2020
Raising the pay of workers in residential care settings to the living wage in their respective states would lead to several economic benefits for workers, employers and the economy overall, according to...
EAPs and other resources that senior living must put in front of its COVID-19-pressured workers
By
Glenn Day
Jul 30, 2020
With the resources to be found in EAPs, senior living and care employees will be better equipped to manage the pressures and continue to carry on.