More staffing, training could reduce deaths from dementia-related resident-on-resident incidents, researcher...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 11, 2018
Addressing staffing and training issues could help reduce the number of deaths from resident-on-resident incidents involving assisted living and nursing home residents with dementia, says the author of...
Big senior living stories of 2023
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 21, 2023
The long shadow of the pandemic continued to recede in 2023, although the senior living profession continued to feel its effects. The COVID-19 public emergency ended May 11. Wage growth has declined but...
Voices growing in call for senior living to receive federal aid
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 17, 2020
For months now, industry associations have been making the case for senior living operators to be included in a federal COVID relief package. Increasingly, their messages are being heard, and other voices...
Senior living CEO named director of Oklahoma’s largest state agency
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 07, 2019
Justin Brown, CEO of Choice Capital Partners, the ownership entity for Villagio Senior Living, has been named director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, which has approximately 7,000 employees...
29 states changed assisted living regulations over past year, report states
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 03, 2018
Twenty-nine states made changes to regulations, statutes and policies affecting assisted living from June 2017 and June 2018, according to a report issued Tuesday by the National Center for Assisted Living....
Assisted living may become ‘more consequential’ in health system, Welltower CEO predicts
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 30, 2018
Assisted living and memory care “may become more consequential” in the healthcare system, and the recent complex deal involving Welltower, ProMedica Health System and HCR ManorCare “is...
Your favorite columns of 2022
Dec 21, 2022
COVID-19 and its related challenges, as well as regulation and incontinence, drew reader attention in 2022, according to analytics related to website visitors, newsletter readers and social media followers...
Workforce issues at forefront as assisted living providers gather in DC
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 05, 2023
Assisted living workforce issues are expected to dominate discussions when representatives of the National Center for Assisted Living and its affiliated organizations gather today and tomorrow in the nation’s...
People in the news, April 4
Apr 04, 2017
Appointments, transitions and honors involving the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living, Covenant Retirement Communities, HCP, LCB Senior Living, Masterpiece Living...
The challenge of making quality job No. 1
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 01, 2017
Ascension Living’s new chief medical officer is striving to make things better. McKnight’s Senior Living spends a few minutes with Kevin O’Neil, M.D.