Benchmark, Springpoint, Lasell Village join Age-Friendly Employer list … County nursing home considers adding assisted living, worker housing to keep doors open … Master’s degree designed to meet...
Marketing campaign aims to share benefits of senior living in COVID-19 era
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 10, 2020
A new marketing campaign is bringing together unaffiliated senior living communities and sponsors to communicate the benefits of senior living to prospective residents and their families in the era of...
Pandemic challenges raise concerns about assisted living’s ability to care for cognitively impaired...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 15, 2024
Exacerbated challenges faced by memory care assisted living communities during the COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to the increased use of antipsychotics and antidepressants, raising concerns about...
So, senior living isn’t healthcare after all?
By
John O'Connor
Jan 04, 2024
The senior living industry’s reinvention as a healthcare player just received a notable setback. In a court room, of all places. As McKnight’s Senior Living recently reported, a circuit court judge...
Assisted living communities not healthcare providers, not immune from COVID lawsuits, judge says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 03, 2024
A wrongful death lawsuit alleging failure to comply with COVID-19 protocols can move forward after a circuit court judge ruled that assisted living communities are not healthcare providers and therefore...
Train employees for ‘acuity creep’ or face potential risk
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 03, 2023
DENVER—The level of needs of older adults moving into assisted living communities today is similar to that of seniors who would move into nursing homes in the past, and if operators and providers don’t...
As feds claw back PRF payments, assisted living frustrated it ‘lost out’ over mismanagement
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 25, 2023
As the federal government continues to claw back misappropriated and unused COVID-19 relief funds, senior living industry advocates remain frustrated that assisted living providers “lost out” on this...
Urgency of senior living move-ins has changed little since before pandemic
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 11, 2023
Despite earlier speculation, the pandemic didn’t affect the urgency of prospective residents looking to move into senior living communities. That’s according to an article in the most recent issue...
Telemedicine increases access to care for assisted living residents with dementia: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 30, 2023
Although racial/ethnic and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations were less likely to use telemedicine early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study finds that telemedicine offered a way for members...
COVID-19 healthcare standards must reflect current stage of pandemic, industry group says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 06, 2023
As the federal government mulls a forthcoming final healthcare standard on COVID-19, one senior living advocacy group is pushing for consistent protocols that recognize the current stage of the pandemic.