15 percent raise for direct care workers would yield ‘impressive’ return on investment: researchers
By
Joe Jancsurak
Dec 09, 2020
A 15% pay raise for direct care workers, which would come at a cost of $9.4 billion in 2022, would yield an “impressive return on investment, including concrete benefits for a variety of stakeholders,”...
6 strategies will help build the long-term care workforce: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 02, 2021
Education, career opportunities, wage increases and reform measures are among the six strategies in a “long-range vision” released Thursday by LeadingAge to address workforce challenges in senior living...
Senior living to benefit from $2.1 billion CDC investment in infection prevention, control
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 21, 2021
A $2.1 billion federal investment in infection prevention and control measures across the healthcare continuum — including $500 million for long-term care strike teams — is welcome news to the senior...
Brent Weil is definitely up to the job
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 14, 2018
The new vice president of workforce development at Argentum is tackling the field’s biggest challenge. Read our exclusive interview with him.
67 percent of senior living operators expect to expand workforce: ASHA survey
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 21, 2021
Consensus exists in the senior living industry that COVID-19 delivered a temporary setback in the industry’s growth, according to a special issue brief from the American Seniors Housing Association.
Addressing caregiving gap needs international perspective, panelists say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 27, 2022
Workforce challenges in long-term care are a global challenge, so solutions need to come from sharing best practices, policies and solutions on a global level.
‘Devastating consequences’: Worker shortages lead to facility closures
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 09, 2021
Hiring and retaining direct care workers is a common challenge across the country, and according to one long-term care facility owner in Oklahoma, staff shortages are crippling the industry.
Seattle start-up raises $4M to develop platform to help with long-term care labor shortages
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Amy Novotney
Jan 28, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed even more deeply the dire labor shortages facing the senior living and care industry. In response, Seattle-based startup Kevala now is working to help fill the gap.
With industry ‘in midst of recovery,’ LTC Properties has near-term $100 million pipeline
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 01, 2021
Westlake Village, CA-based LTC Properties has a “near-term pipeline” valued at more than $100 million as the long-term care industry is “firmly in the midst of a recovery,” executives said Friday...
FocusOn Briefs: Information technology
Apr 01, 2021
The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care has acquired senior living industry market analytics platform VisionLTC, and together they have formed a new company called NIC MAP Vision that...