HUD 2024 funding proposal presents ‘mixed bag’ for senior housing
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 15, 2023
President Biden’s $73.3 billion budget request to address affordable housing in 2024 is “strong” overall but presents a “mixed bag” for senior housing, according to LeadingAge.
Senior living touts big ‘wins’ in highlighting sector’s strengths
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 29, 2022
Argentum is claiming a partial win in its campaign to differentiate assisted living from other long-term care settings in the wake of updated COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidance from the...
Operators better prepared to manage next pandemic: LTC Properties CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 02, 2020
The senior living and care industry has faced considerable challenges related to COVID-19, but operators now have better tools and a better understanding of how to manage in the pandemic, LTC Properties...
Improving industry workforce, perceptions and access are 3 areas of focus for Argentum’s new strategic...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 09, 2023
Engaging, developing and supporting 2 million career opportunities in senior living, improving policymaker perceptions of the industry and making senior living more attractive to prospective residents...
2023 proved to be a ‘landmark’ year in progress toward treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 15, 2023
The 2023 update to the nation’s roadmap of strategies and actions to address Alzheimer’s disease was released Wednesday, highlighting “landmark” progress made over the past year in understanding...
It’s time to ‘go on offense’ and shift narrative on aging services: LeadingAge
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 19, 2022
DENVER — Two years ago, LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said she saw the pandemic as “the moment we’ve been waiting for.” Now, she said Tuesday at the group’s Annual Meeting +...
Breakthrough infection experience leads senior living provider to insist that ‘vaccinations are necessary’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2021
Connecticut-based Masonicare was among the first senior living providers to announce a staff COVID-19 vaccine mandate back in December 2020, when vaccines first became available. So when a staff member...
‘Calm preparedness’ carries community through COVID-19 breakthrough infections
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 31, 2021
Kendal at Oberlin, a Northeast Ohio life plan community, went 16 months without a resident coronavirus case. Then a resident’s fever prompted a rapid test within the past month, which came back positive.
Workforce training expenses would be covered by college funding program under bipartisan legislation
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 19, 2023
Bipartisan legislation expanding the use of 529 savings accounts to cover workforce training and credentialing program expenses is gaining support from the senior living industry.
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Bipartisan pandemic legislation includes $2 billion for testing, tracing in assisted living, other settings
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 10, 2020
The framework for a bipartisan $908 billion COVID-19 relief package, released Wednesday, includes measures directed at addressing the struggles of assisted living and other long-term care operators.