Assisted living model could be threatened by long-term care workforce proposal
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 30, 2024
A proposed federal bill includes substantial new funding for long-term care workforce development, but it potentially threatens the assisted living model by including the setting with more clinical ones,...
More news for Friday, March 10
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 10, 2023
Follow these tips to prevent, defend against quality of care allegations … LeadingAge endorses bill to expand affordable housing … Older workers turning to gig work: AARP … Second round of $19M grant...
$81 million NIH grant will study dementia care through workforce in assisted living, other settings
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 05, 2023
A five-year, $81 million federal grant will fund a study to better understand the workforce caring for assisted living residents and others who are living with dementia in hopes of helping with recruitment...
More news for Friday, Oct. 6
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 06, 2023
World Alzheimer Report 2023 focuses on reducing dementia risk … CDC releases new respiratory virus resources … Senior living providers in MD, MI among recipients of 2023 Thome Aging Well Grants …...
More news for Thursday, Jan. 26
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 26, 2023
Senior living resident died from drinking cleaning fluid, not eating Cheetos: coroner … GAO details HHS COVID-19 funds for older adults, congregate settings … JAMA study: Pandemic disrupted dementia...
More news for Monday, Sept. 18
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 18, 2023
Court considers race discrimination case at Indiana retirement community … HUD awards $18M awarded for energy efficiency, climate resilience projects … GAO report identifies safeguards to help HHS...
Court approves class action status for assisted living staffing lawsuit
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 09, 2023
An appellate court has granted class certification to residents alleging that a senior living operator used deceptive practices by falsely promising to adequately staff its communities to meet resident...
Long-term care ‘still standing’ but in need of ‘reinforcements,’ LeadingAge chair says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 18, 2022
DENVER — Despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather and “cheap shots,” the long-term care sector is “still standing,” LeadingAge Board Chairman Mike King said during Monday’s...
More news for Monday, Jan. 22
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 22, 2024
Boosting CNA workforce is focus of state association campaign … Tracking conditions in older adults may help ID those at risk of cognitive impairment … Hackers stole $7.5M from HHS, leaving grant recipients...
Federal bill would provide $32.5 million for states to create master plans for aging
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 01, 2024
A proposed nationwide grant program aims to give states up to $32.5 million collectively to develop master plans for aging to support the “massive demographic shift” that will, for the first time,...