Michigan awarded $1.85M grant to address Alzheimer’s … HUD announces ConnectHome expansion to Section 202 housing … CT ombudsman program to launch … Adults with ADHD are at increased risk for developing...
Business briefs, Sept. 27
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 27, 2023
Older adults’ vulnerability declines soon after moving into senior housing: study … Price of nursing home staffing mandate is $6.8B, 100K more workers, analysis finds … Veterans Homes of California...
More news for Friday, Oct. 27
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 27, 2023
Assisted living worker charged with murder after shoving resident … Personality changes prior to cognitive impairment aren’t predictive of dementia … CDC releases COVID-19, RSV vaccine information...
Business briefs, Sept. 29
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 29, 2023
CMS, housing groups concerned about effect of potential government shutdown … Participation open for annual assisted living salary and benefit study … Baltimore mayor awards $2M “direct care worker...
More news for Friday, Nov. 3
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 03, 2023
Neighoborhood environments can influence modifiable factors for Alzheimer’s, dementias … Former assisted living owner to undergo competency evaluation in exploitation case … Enhanced tai chi program...
HUD funding lapse would have ‘harmful impacts’ on affordable senior housing providers, residents,...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 29, 2023
A coalition of affordable housing organizations including LeadingAge is urging Congress to pass fiscal year appropriations bills that support housing providers and older adults and to work to avoid a government...
CMS changes quality measure set for home- and community-based services
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 15, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced changes to the quality measure set for home- and community-based services and described reporting requirements for Money Follows the Person grant...
Assisted living model could be threatened by long-term care workforce proposal
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 30, 2024
A proposed federal bill includes substantial new funding for long-term care workforce development, but it potentially threatens the assisted living model by including the setting with more clinical ones,...
$81 million NIH grant will study dementia care through workforce in assisted living, other settings
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 05, 2023
A five-year, $81 million federal grant will fund a study to better understand the workforce caring for assisted living residents and others who are living with dementia in hopes of helping with recruitment...
More news for Friday, Oct. 6
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 06, 2023
World Alzheimer Report 2023 focuses on reducing dementia risk … CDC releases new respiratory virus resources … Senior living providers in MD, MI among recipients of 2023 Thome Aging Well Grants …...