Low-wage healthcare workers in residential care facilities, including assisted living communities, were five times more likely to experience food insecurity compared with other healthcare workers, according to the results of a new study.
A new report from New York-based PHI pinpoints low wages and job quality concerns among residential care aides as fueling workforce recruiting and retention challenges in senior living. If those jobs are to be transformed, the group says, it will require significant investment from the public and private sectors.
Senior living and skilled nursing provider organizations joined forces last week to ask the State Department to prioritize foreign-trained nurse and healthcare worker immigrant visas to help address the industry’s staffing crisis.
The end of enhanced unemployment benefits could be a boon for home care agencies struggling to hire workers since the pandemic struck early last year.
Leaders from Kentucky’s long-term care industry implored state lawmakers Thursday to provide more support for its bruised and battered workforce.
Attendees of a Sept. 21 webinar will have the opportunity to obtain detailed information about employee retention in senior living and care, including how the pandemic has affected employee retention, as well as five techniques to add to their employee retention programs.
Rhode Island’s shortage of home care workers is about to get even worse.
LeadingAge is pulling out all of the stops in a bid to get Congress to approve billions of dollars for senior services and caregiver support.
Long-term care workers who choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19, despite an employer requiring it, could be denied state unemployment benefits, some experts now say.
For the first time, Brightview Senior Living has been named one of the 2021 People Companies that Care. The award program, conducted by Great Place to Work and People magazine, honors the top companies in the country deemed to demonstrate respect for their associates, communities and the environment.
