20 percent tax deduction awaits some assisted living operators but eludes skilled nursing providers
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 23, 2019
A 20% business income tax deduction under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act could be awaiting some assisted living communities, according to final regulations issued by the federal government on Friday. Skilled...
Operators score ‘significant victory’ in Florida as judge invalidates 14 code provisions
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 31, 2018
Two associations representing assisted living operators in the Sunshine State notched a win against the state Department of Elder Affairs Thursday afternoon when an administrative law judge said that 14...
Recent experience confirms that stand-alone memory care communities are ‘insufficient,’ Thrive executives...
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 12, 2019
As the Thrive Senior Living name disappears from real estate investment trust LTC Properties’ portfolio, the Atlanta-based operator said Tuesday that it is a good time to step away from stand-alone memory...
Study: Immigrants account for 25.7 percent of workforce in long-term care sector that includes senior...
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 04, 2019
The percentage includes more than 214,000 workers, said the authors, from Harvard Medical School and Hunter College of the City University of New York.
New coalition brings groups together to address provider, senior needs
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 01, 2019
The Florida Health Care Association, LeadingAge Florida and AARP have formed the Coalition for Silver Solutions with state legislators in an effort to develop short- and long-term strategies to meet the...
LeadingAge leaders urge members to get active on Twitter and at home
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 28, 2019
LeadingAge now is using Twitter to bring attention to issues important to members by using the #DearCandidate hashtag, President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said. But being politically active is about more...
New law requires central, locked storage of guns at assisted living communities
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 21, 2019
California assisted living communities that allow guns on their premises will be required to centrally store the guns, unloaded, in a locked gun safe under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
New ‘playbook’ could help more providers serve the middle market
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 26, 2019
A two-year effort led by LeadingAge Virginia will culminate this fall in the release of a “playbook” designed to help senior living and care providers determine whether and how to serve middle-income...
5-year, $1.9 million study aims to improve resident, caregiver quality of life
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 19, 2016
Georgia State University Gerontology Institute researchers are in the middle of a five-year, $1.9 million study ultimately aiming to improve the quality of life for assisted living residents and their...
Assisted living increasingly a lawsuit target, attorney says
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 18, 2016
Plaintiffs’ attorneys increasingly are looking at assisted living communities as potential lawsuit targets, Neville Bilimoria, a partner with the health law practice group of Duane Morris LLP in...