Home care providers declare 2021 ‘year of healthcare at home’ while they acknowledge acute workforce...
By
Liza Berger
May 21, 2021
Leaders of two key home care associations voiced their excitement Thursday regarding the growing legislative and regulatory momentum in the direction of home care.
Paul Ryan talks healthcare, immigration at NIC in first post-Congress speech
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 22, 2019
The Medicaid and immigration programs will be reformed, and senior living and long-term care providers can help shape the outcome, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said during Thursday’s...
Pandemic will forge an improved senior living product, leaders say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 04, 2021
COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the senior living industry. But industry experts said Wednesday that they are optimistic it will emerge a better product on the other side.
Senior living workforce at crisis levels, but hope is on the horizon: Argentum
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 11, 2022
Workforce challenges have always existed in long-term care, but never to the crisis-level extent they do now. Hope is on the horizon, however, according to senior living experts.
Solving senior living’s top challenge
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 01, 2015
When James Balda takes the microphone at insurer Genworth’s annual symposium on long-term care today, he’ll be discussing what senior living owners and operators have been telling him is the...
Dwindling savings, less fear of COVID may drive some back to work, experts say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 03, 2021
Employers in senior living and care and other industries may see their workforce challenges lessen a bit as some peoples’ savings accumulated over the pandemic dry up and as fear of COVID-19 subsides,...
Senior living braces for changes in 2020 as top challenges remain
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 02, 2020
As 2020 begins, the senior living industry is preparing for the changing needs and wants of current and future residents as workforce and occupancy issues continue to challenge operators, according to...
‘We’re in the love business’: New LeadingAge board chair
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 27, 2021
ATLANTA — With a theme of hope for the day, LeadingAge installed its new chair of the Board of Directors, Mike King, during Tuesday’s keynote session at its Annual Meeting + Expo.
As pandemic continues, solving labor challenges becomes even more urgent, leaders say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 04, 2022
COVID-19 and the labor issues it exacerbates will be a primary focus of senior living providers for much or all of 2022, with recovery extending into 2023 and beyond, industry leaders tell McKnight’s...
Immigrant labor could improve quality of care for nursing home residents: panel
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 20, 2022
Increasing the availability of immigrant workers, in addition to solving an industry-wide staffing shortage, could improve the quality of care in nursing homes, Delia Furtado, Ph.D., an associate professor...