Helping prospects navigate long-term care system an ‘enormous opportunity’ for senior living: report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 09, 2022
The creation of central doorways to existing long-term care services — including senior living, nursing home care, home-based care, transportation and meal services — is critical to supporting older...
Life plan community to provide dementia de-escalation training, simulations
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 05, 2022
A Virginia life plan community will use a local grant to train emergency responders and older adult service providers on dementia behavior de-escalation practices, while also exposing their staff to what...
Design adaptations lower COVID-19 risk in senior living: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 17, 2020
As senior living communities return to a new normal, the American Institute of Architects has unveiled post-pandemic design adaptation strategies for retrofitting existing senior housing.
Women now lead the way at 92 percent of Kendal affiliates
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 07, 2023
On the heels of Women’s Equality Day, Aug. 26, one not-for-profit senior living organization is celebrating setting a new standard in leadership in senior living with women heading 11 of its 12 communities.
Barclay Friends celebrates new building with virtual ribbon-cutting
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 05, 2020
More than 170 people watched via Zoom when Barclay Friends, the West Chester, PA, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community affiliated with The Kendal Corp., held a virtual ribbon-cutting for...
‘Going back to where we were is not an option’: LeadingAge CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 25, 2021
As legislators negotiate places to trim President Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan, putting the needs of older Americans “on the chopping block” would be “one of their greatest failures...
LeadingAge leaders share a plan for ‘turbulent times’
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 31, 2017
The past year has been one of “natural disasters and political upheaval,” LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan told those attending Monday’s general session at the LeadingAge...
Senior living needs COVID-19 testing kits for asymptomatic residents and staff, CEOs say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 23, 2020
Assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities must be given immediate access to COVID-19 testing kits to be able to identify asymptomatic residents and staff members and prevent the spread...
CCRC where fatal fire occurred reopens skilled nursing building
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 05, 2018
The Pennsylvania continuing care retirement community where four residents died in a five-alarm fire in November has reopened its skilled nursing building and announced plans to start construction of a...