Washington may become the first state to offer workers a long-term care insurance program into which they would pay to help offset assisted living and other costs.
Staffing and Medicaid reimbursement were two pressing issues for operators that emerged from a recent survey commissioned by the Florida Assisted Living Association, the organization’s CEO, Shaddrick A. Haston, Esq., told McKnight’s Senior Living.
Minnesota consumer advocates on Tuesday told state legislators to put their money where their mouths are and provide “substantial funding increases” for elder care in addition to bringing their plans for legislative reforms and assisted living community licensure to fruition.
Utah’s Silver Alert program, designed to help locate older adults with dementia who are missing, was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert on March 21 and is expected to go into effect later this year.
Assisted living communities in North Carolina would be required to have generators for use during power outages under a bill being considered by state legislators.
North Dakota inched closer last week to becoming the next state with a law requiring assisted living communities and nursing homes to honor resident requests to use electronic monitoring equipment in their rooms.
The Florida Health Care Association, LeadingAge Florida and AARP have formed the Coalition for Silver Solutions with state legislators in an effort to develop short- and long-term strategies to meet the needs of Florida’s aging population across the continuum of care and services, the groups announced last week.
Sprinklers, safety and staffing levels are the focuses of legislation that a Pennsylvania senator plans to introduce in response to the deaths of four residents after a fire-alarm fire at a continuing care retirement community in his district in November 2017.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he plans to sign into law a bill enabling terminally ill people to seek medical assistance to end their lives, reportedly making the Garden State the eighth jurisdiction to have such a law.
As a bill designed to expand access to medical cannabis heads for potential signing, associations representing assisted living operators are looking for guidance on whether it applies to assisted living residents and their caregivers.
