LeadingAge’s board chair talks about the labor and policy challenges operators must face.
Guest worker bill could ease staffing shortages, group maintains
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 24, 2016
A newly proposed guest worker program could help senior living communities address a workforce development challenge, according to one organization representing providers.
LeadingAge leaders urge members to get active on Twitter and at home
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 28, 2019
LeadingAge now is using Twitter to bring attention to issues important to members by using the #DearCandidate hashtag, President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said. But being politically active is about more...
Study: Immigrants account for 25.7 percent of workforce in long-term care sector that includes senior...
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 04, 2019
The percentage includes more than 214,000 workers, said the authors, from Harvard Medical School and Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Brent Weil is definitely up to the job
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 14, 2018
The new vice president of workforce development at Argentum is tackling the field’s biggest challenge. Read our exclusive interview with him.
Providers must avoid commoditization: NIC speakers
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 15, 2016
On Thursday at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care fall conference, a former government official and a senior living executive discussed strategies as senior care providers respond...
Industry continues to look to immigration reform to help address workforce shortages
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 21, 2021
President Biden’s immigration reform policies, as well as immigration reform legislation being considered by Congress, offer potential solutions for ongoing workforce shortages affecting senior living,...
Gingrich: Look to alternatives to immigration for workforce solutions
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 28, 2017
Immigration isn’t the answer to senior living’s workforce challenges, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told those attending Wednesday’s opening general session of the National...
‘Best days are ahead’ under Trump, with caveats, financial adviser says
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 16, 2017
Gross domestic product growth could increase to 3% starting in 2018, one expert predicts, if the federal government can enact several reforms, among them healthcare and immigration.
Solving senior living’s top challenge
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 01, 2015
When James Balda takes the microphone at insurer Genworth’s annual symposium on long-term care today, he’ll be discussing what senior living owners and operators have been telling him is the...