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Study backs training to boost vaccine confidence in LTC sector on eve of vaccine rollout
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 29, 2023
Senior living and care community operators have an opportunity to proactively support methods shown to boost worker vaccination levels as a new COVID-19 vaccine is readied, researchers say.
Assisted living residents with dementia had higher all-cause mortality during pandemic
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 11, 2022
Assisted living residents with dementia were more likely to die from any cause in the early months of the pandemic than assisted living residents without dementia, a new study has found.
Assisted living providers struggled with infection control during pandemic, multistate study reveals
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 09, 2022
Assisted living operators reported serious challenges in implementing infection prevention and control practices for residents living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study.
Argentum urges member push to include senior living in provider relief funds
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 01, 2021
A sign-on letter campaign is one time-sensitive priority among various efforts to secure federal funding and help providers recover from pandemic losses. President Biden’s newly announced infrastructure...
Capital Senior Living move-ins at 2-year high, indicating rebound in demand, CEO says
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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%.
CDC quantifies coronavirus’s heavy toll on assisted living
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 20, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the assisted living industry, according to a new analysis of state and local data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.