Bipartisan bill would ease long-term care workforce shortage, advocates say, but ‘there’s more to...
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 04, 2024
Legislation introduced last week by Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Morgan McGarvey (D-NY) aims to boost the nation’s shortage of nurses, nurse aides and other healthcare professionals.
Financial insecurity ‘snowballing’ among older adults
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 01, 2024
Eighty percent of Americans aged 60 or more years face financial insecurity about paying for long-term care or weathering financial emergencies, according to a report published last week by the National...
Tabitha designs intergenerational community to fight loneliness within 2 generations
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 27, 2024
Older adults share their living space alongside college students in a senior living community designed to fight loneliness in the two generations.
Proposal would add 1.3 million sustainable, affordable homes to battle supply shortfall
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 23, 2024
Newly proposed legislation aims to tackle the nation’s housing supply shortfall — including affordable senior housing — by building and preserving up to 1.3 million homes to create a pipeline of...
H-2B cap reached for first half of fiscal year 2025
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 23, 2024
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it has received enough petitions to meet the H-2B visa cap for the first half of fiscal year 2025.
LeadingAge ‘mystified’ that senior living is missing from framework for National Plan on Aging
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 18, 2024
Calling residential care communities such as assisted living a “vital member” of their communities, LeadingAge said it was “mystified” by its lack of inclusion in the strategic framework for a...
Business briefs, Sept. 16
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 16, 2024
Growing demand, reduced skilled nursing footprint leads to increased memory care units in CCRCs … More providers adding ‘talent’ executives: LZ 200 … Home care, hospice firms selected among top...
National Senior Communities, Presbyterian Homes and Services top LeadingAge Ziegler 200 lists for senior...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 13, 2024
Presbyterian Homes & Services tops the 2024 LeadingAge Ziegler 200 list of largest not-for-profit multi-site senior living and care organizations with respect to assisted living units, with 2,927, and...
Immigration reform needed to beef up care workforce: LeadingAge
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 12, 2024
Immigration reform is needed to bring more foreign-born care workers to the United States, legally, to help resolve long-standing workforce shortages, according to a report published Wednesday by LeadingAge.
Continuing resolutions could have ‘significant’ effects on affordable senior housing
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 10, 2024
Calling for increased investments in affordable housing, LeadingAge joined other housing and community development organizations Friday to urge Congress to pass final appropriations bills, saying that...