A focus on HCBS can eliminate bias in senior living and care: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 12, 2023
Significant disparities exist in senior living and care, but policymakers and lawmakers can eliminate a bias toward institutional care, such as care provided in nursing homes, by focusing on equity in...
Dropping of mask mandates has benefits for residents, staff, employers, provider groups say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 06, 2023
Senior living advocates in Oregon are greeting the state’s dropping of mask mandates in healthcare settings with relief, saying that it could lead to improved resident and staff satisfaction as well...
Solving ‘unprecedented workforce crisis’ is focus of new AHCA/NCAL campaign
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 12, 2023
An “unprecedented workforce crisis” is the backdrop for a national campaign launched by the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living on Wednesday to educate job-seekers...
Long-term care in the mix as states respond to Supreme Court’s gun control decision
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 28, 2022
Calling the right to carry a concealed weapon a “recipe for tragedy,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) on Friday pledged to expand a state list of locations where firearms cannot be carried to include...
30 percent of COVID deaths in long-term care have occurred in assisted living: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 19, 2020
Thirty percent of long-term care-related deaths from COVID-19 in the United States have occurred in assisted living communities and other care homes, whereas 70% have taken place in nursing homes, according...
Studies of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among long-term care workers receive $11 million
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 19, 2021
Two studies have received an $11 million funding bump to find ways to reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among long-term care workers.
Caregiver pleads guilty, receives probation in death of assisted living resident
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 13, 2022
One of three caregivers facing felony charges in the death of an 86-year-old assisted living and memory care community resident left outside in the heat has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation.
CMS dementia care pilot program to expand care delivery options
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 01, 2023
Assisted living residents may be part of a new Medicare dementia care model that will test an alternative payment for family caregivers while expanding care delivery options to allow people living with...
A permanent commission in New Jersey will be dedicated to evaluating current systems and making recommendations to improve care for people living with dementia and their caregivers.
$672 million would be cost of one-time COVID-19 testing for all assisted living and nursing home residents,...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 28, 2020
Testing every U.S. assisted living community and nursing home resident and staff member for COVID-19 one time would cost $672 million, according to data released Wednesday by the American Health Care Association...