Housing costs a burden long-term care workers, residents: experts
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 15, 2021
A chasm exists between personal care aides’ and nursing assistants’ earned wage and their housing wage, and the shortage of affordable housing for older adults is even worse, according to a new report...
A Place for Mom launches national online directory of more than 15,000 SNFs
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 08, 2023
Senior living referral service A Place for Mom expanded its services into the skilled nursing sector Wednesday with the launch of an online directory, NursingHomes.com.
Retirement confidence has not recovered from significant 2023 drop: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 30, 2024
Workers’ and retirees’ confidence has not fully bounced back from last year’s drop, but signs exist that a positive recovery is underway, according to results of the 2024 Retirement Confidence Survey...
Analysis: National health spending rising more slowly than gross domestic product
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 19, 2022
National health spending is increasing but at a more sluggish rate than the gross domestic product, according to Altarum’s monthly Health Sector Economic Indicators (HSEI) brief.
Debt is ‘unwelcome traveling companion’ in retirement
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 09, 2024
Not only do many older adults enter retirement with inadequate savings to sustain them in their golden years, upwards of 60% of them bring debt along as an “unwelcome traveling companion,” certified...
Nursing home care costs rising fastest among private-payer healthcare services
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 24, 2023
Private-payer healthcare services price growth hit a new record high, with prices for nursing home care increasing at the fastest rate among healthcare categories, at 7%. That’s according to Altarum’s...
Ohio Living, Brio Living Solutions consider affiliation
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 31, 2023
Westerville, OH-based Ohio Living and Grand Rapids, MI-based Brio Living Services (formerly UMRC & Porter Hills) are exploring a potential strategic affiliation aimed at expanding aging service offerings...
Worker classification rule ‘problematic’ for healthcare employers as written, coalition says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 05, 2023
A coalition of 17 healthcare organizations is urging the US Department of Labor to exempt skilled nursing and other healthcare providers from a proposal that would more strictly limit how employers classify...
Long-term care accounts for 54 percent of healthcare bankruptcies this year
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 24, 2022
Bankruptcies in the healthcare industry are trending up by more than 25% this year, and 54% of them have happened in senior living and other long-term care settings, particularly in skilled nursing facilities,...
Strategic plan embraces change with small-house business model
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 09, 2023
A Charlotte, NC, operator is bringing the small-house concept to its continuing care retirement / life plan communities.