Keeping staff engaged during the next phase of the pandemic
By
Christopher Lukach
Aug 31, 2020
Keeping your staff members engaged and ensuring that team morale remains high is paramount to preserving goodwill and, to put it pragmatically, your bottom line.
Immigrants and America’s healthcare labor shortage
By
Nate Hamme
Aug 30, 2021
We need our legislators to support the needed influx of qualified caregivers for the sake of our nation’s sick, elderly and disabled.
The benefits of ‘camp’ for new team members
By
Kim Smith
Sep 05, 2023
Camp SageLife is a powerful and memorable way to teach our team about our resident-focused philosophy. Everything has a purpose and lesson.
Storytelling strategy for retention and recruitment
By
Courtney Malengo, APR
Mar 14, 2022
As the great resignation continues, it has become clear that what employees want, and what employers think that employees want, are two very different things. McKinsey & Company’s recent study put this...
Breakthrough care techniques from Europe can set a new standard in America
By
Benjamin Surmi
Nov 15, 2021
America’s senior living communities today face two enormous challenges. Desiring to see the situation improve, our team began searching globally for a solution. What we found has been both inspiring...
Our Great Place to Work journey — before and after COVID
By
Warren Spieker
Jan 11, 2021
When we created Continuing Life to support a growing group of continuing care retirement communities, we invested in being a great place to work. It took a few years of work, and we’re not perfect,...
Baby boomers are becoming more like millennials: Insights on retaining older workers
By
Bruce Tulgan
Sep 04, 2018
In the workforce, everyone is becoming more like millennials, not the other way around.
Vexed by vaccinations? 5 communication strategies to encourage ongoing adoption
By
Courtney Malengo, APR
Mar 01, 2021
The reality is, if we cannot figure out the best ways to communicate, then vaccine adoption will continue to lag, plaguing healthcare workers and the broader public.
We’re college students with ideas of how to promote senior living careers to a younger generation
By
Lily Kiffmeyer
Riley Tagatz
Jan 02, 2024
Two college students share insights on promoting the field of senior living leadership to a younger generation.