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Senate Judiciary chair asks DOJ to detail elder abuse efforts
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 15, 2016
Citing an incident in an assisted living and memory care community, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley has asked the Department of Justice for details on its work to protect senior living...
Sen. Grassley demands details of community’s HR, social media policies after worker arrest
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 30, 2017
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is seeking details of a Florida memory care community’s human resources and social media policies after a worker there allegedly secretly recorded two...
Crisis management 101
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 29, 2016
It’s the news no senior living administrator wants to receive: one of your community’s residents appears to have been abused, and one of your employees appears to have been the culprit.
Benchmark turns to artificial intelligence to attract, keep real workers
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 02, 2018
Benchmark Senior Living will harness data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics in an effort to tackle the senior living industry’s biggest challenge, worker recruiting and retention,...
Be smart about phones, social media
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 25, 2016
If you haven’t reviewed your human resources manual lately, now may be a good time to check your policies related to cellphone and social media use by employees during work hours — or to formulate...
Affordable options for the middle class
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 03, 2019
As the senior living industry looks to find ways to serve the silver wave of baby boomers, including those in the middle market, all ideas should be on the table as potential solutions. Ever heard of the...
Efforts aim to educate healthcare professionals about assisted living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2016
Assisted living communities are working to educate healthcare professionals and consumers about what they have to offer.
Admission error, understaffing led to resident’s loss of eye, lawsuit maintains
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 21, 2018
A former resident is suing the California memory care community where he lived, alleging that a faulty admissions process, poor worker training and understaffing resulted in him being the victim of two...
Eating seafood may slow memory loss
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 12, 2016
Older adults who ate seafood or other foods containing omega-3 fatty acids at least once a week saw a slower decline in age-related memory loss and cognitive issues than those who ate such foods less frequently,...