Argentum launches education effort to focus on senior living workforce crisis
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 01, 2022
Retooling existing federal and state job training programs to include senior living in the menu of options is the focus of Argentum’s latest educational campaign to address the industry’s workforce...
Provider shares ‘telewellness playbook’ to address resident mental health
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 26, 2022
As resident mental health and well-being top the list of challenges for affordable senior housing providers, one operator is sharing its playbook on a successful telewellness program.
What one does while sitting could affect dementia risk: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 24, 2022
What a person does while sitting matters, according to a new study looking at the effects of physical and mental activity on dementia risk.
H-1B visa cap reached for fiscal year 2023
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 24, 2022
US Citizenship and Immigration Services has reached the cap for the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa US advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s...
Actions & Transactions, Aug. 23
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 23, 2022
Nez Perce tribe receives $1M grant for assisted living, acute care facility … Walker & Dunlop structures $57.6M in HUD-insured loans for 3 IL SNFs
$25 million expansion adds 5 states and territories to Money Follows the Person program for HCBS
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will award up to $5 million each to Illinois, Kansas and New Hampshire, as well as for American Samoa...
How urban design can fulfill senior living needs for baby boomers
By
David Banta
Aug 22, 2022
The design of today’s urban senior housing developments is being molded by several characteristics that are unique to this age cohort.
Actions & Transactions, Aug. 22
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 22, 2022
Evans Senior Investments arranges $38.2M sale of 2 MI senior living communities … VIUM Capital provides $17.1M loan to refinance Texas SNF … Spectrum Health breaks ground for Grand Rapids, MI, SNF
Take stock of LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination practices, attorneys advise
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 19, 2022
Treating residents as individuals, training staff members and having the appropriate policies and procedures in place are key takeaways for senior living communities and other long-term care facilities...
‘Real solutions’ for long-term care needed from legislators, industry leader says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 18, 2022
Saying that long-term care is at a “crisis point,” LeadingAge is urging lawmakers to deliver “real solutions” for older adults and their caregivers in senior living and across the long-term care...