Thinking of growing or starting a home care business? Here are the tools
By
Mike Rozman
Apr 08, 2021
As 2021 and our post-vaccine economy ramps up, franchising offers a way for entrepreneurs to open their own business, build sustainable income, and follow a path to tried and true success.
PACE sees potential to expand in American Jobs Plan
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 02, 2021
The devil is still in the details, but Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) are optimistic they could be big winners in President Joseph Biden’s American Jobs Plan, which would funnel...
Capital Senior Living move-ins at 2-year high, indicating rebound in demand, CEO says
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 01, 2021
March move-ins across the company’s 60 communities are on track to be at their highest monthly level in two years, while overall occupancy rates remain near 75%.
To attract home care employees, treat them like healthcare workers, expert says
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 31, 2021
The pandemic highlighted the numerous challenges the home care industry faces as the U.S. population ages, Robert Espinoza, PHI vice president of policy for the nonprofit PHI, which tracks the direct care...
Post-COVID changes in design and operations likely to affect profitability and returns for some time:...
By
Amy Novotney
Mar 23, 2021
Even as census rate declines within senior living communities begin to slow as a result of vaccine rollouts and COVID-19 case declines within the sector, some experts say headwinds are expected to continue...
Long-term care staff vaccine hesitancy: Safety, efficacy, newness, distrust top factors
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2021
Safety, efficacy and the newness of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as distrust of the government, were among the major factors that long-term care and other healthcare workers cited as reasons for not receiving...
Winning the tug-of-war with home health staff development
By
Don Spiers
Mar 18, 2021
It’s a huge advantage for home health to have more patients and wider access to a variety of referral streams. But we have seen some difficulties related to that shift too.
Pandemic tech changes are here to stay
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 15, 2021
Some types of tech use by older adults, brought on by the pandemic, may surprise you.
Retaining and recruiting employees for a healthy organizational culture
By
Pat Lamoreux
Mar 15, 2021
We all have felt the ripple effects of the pandemic as it has roared on. Yet despite unyielding stresses, never-ending regulation revisions and overall morass, one thing continues to ring true: Our team...
Increase vaccination uptake with focus on ‘movable middle’: report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 10, 2021
Senior living operators looking to increase staff COVID-19 vaccine uptake should focus their efforts on the “movable middle” by making vaccination easy, building trust in vaccine safety and offering...