Not here, not us: Internal vaccine campaign allows senior living community’s residents to ‘get their...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 10, 2021
A few weeks out from the one-year anniversary of one of the earliest clusters of COVID-19 in the country, a Louisiana life plan community operator is looking forward to letting residents “get their lives...
CDC shares how long-term care providers can ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines after on-site clinics...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 09, 2021
With the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care on-site vaccination program for assisted living communities and nursing homes ending in the coming weeks, the focus is moving to ensuring that those...
‘We can’t go back to the way it was’: Providers from around the world share pandemic experiences
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 05, 2021
The tragedies in long-term care brought on by the pandemic have put a welcome spotlight on elder care, according to Dan Levitt, executive director of Tabor Village, a senior living community in Abbotsford,...
People in the news, Feb. 2
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 02, 2021
Appointments, promotions and news at Accolade, AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, ATI Physical Therapy, Atria Senior Living, Discovery Senior Living, Genacross Lutheran Services,...
Low-cost training effective in reducing ageism among senior living staff: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 01, 2021
Senior living providers looking to reduce ageism among staff members will be interested in a newly published study that found that a low-cost, one-hour, video-based ageism intervention is able to improve...
A fresh plea calls for including independent living in COVID-19 vaccination priority clinics
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 29, 2021
Independent living residents of a Richmond, VA, continuing care retirement community had the rug pulled out from under them this week when COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled for mid-February abruptly...
Senior living providers express concern as states redirect COVID vaccines elsewhere
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 27, 2021
As states are pressured to get shots into arms more quickly, some governors and public health officials are rerouting COVID-19 vaccine doses earmarked for assisted living communities and nursing homes...
Senior living industry cautiously hopeful about Biden’s COVID response strategy
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 25, 2021
The U.S. Defense, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs secretaries, along with other federal government agencies and officials, will work together to provide targeted surge assistance to assisted...
Decades old LTC policies hold $800B in benefit value: report
By
Joe Jancsurak
Jan 14, 2021
The time is right for state policymakers to adopt policy and regulatory approaches to support the retention of benefit value in long-term care insurance policies. Doing so would help protect the financial...
Home care aides can adopt neurosurgeon’s mental fitness tips for patients
By
Joe Jancsurak
Jan 14, 2021
Humans’ ability to process, understand and apply knowledge “can actually get sharper, can get better as you get older,” CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, M.D., said during an interview...