Feds make $175 million available for affordable senior housing
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 23, 2022
Up to $174.6 million in federal grant funding was announced Wednesday to support the development of new rental affordable senior housing.
Assisted living grant scheme leads to potential $1 million fine, 30-year prison term
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 22, 2020
A woman is facing 34 counts of bank fraud for falsely claiming she could help individuals and organizations secure federal grants to build assisted living communities and affordable housing, according...
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...
Assisted living community adds UVC lighting to its COVID-19 toolbox
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 02, 2022
An Oregon assisted living community is fighting airborne viruses — including COVID-19 — with UVC lighting.
Immunity protections removed for senior living communities, executives
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 06, 2020
New York state is walking back its blanket protections granted to senior living communities and nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
$80.5 million grant meant to help providers address lingering pandemic effects
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 12, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect long-term care facilities, Pennsylvania is rolling out a program meant to help operators respond to the crisis, and Rhode Island is tightening up its visitation...
Meet Alicia Hartnett, Rising Star honoree
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2020
Alicia Hartnett, director of healthcare and assisted living, Lutheran Village at Miller’s Grant, Ellicott City, MD, is in the 2020 class of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction as a Rising Star.
$2 million trial will measure effect of virtual reality on senior living residents, families
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 20, 2021
Boston-based Rendever will use a $2 million National Institute on Aging grant to study the effects of its virtual reality platform on senior living residents and their families.
Technology connections
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 20, 2021
By the end of the month, more than 1,400 Amazon Echo Show 8 devices will have been delivered to senior living communities in North Carolina, thanks to a federal grant.
Final rule takes aim at H-1B visa lottery, shifting to wage-based system
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 21, 2021
A Department of Homeland Security final rule set to go into effect March 9 will change the granting of specialty occupation visas from a random lottery to one based on wages.