Strategic grant initiatives: How to elevate diversity and inclusion in senior living communities
By
Diane Massey
May 13, 2024
A feeling of belonging should define every resident’s experience in a senior living community, and it helps with recruiting and retaining staff members, too. Here are four steps to making that happen.
Assisted living as ‘host of the party’
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 06, 2024
With federal, state and local lawmakers and regulators increasingly scrutinizing assisted living operators individually and at the corporate and industry levels, it will be critical for providers and their...
On-demand nurses are not the same as on-demand drivers under new DOL rules
By
Ed Lenz, Esq.
May 06, 2024
Unless strong action is taken, 1099 platform providers will create a new era where inadequately trained and poorly supervised independent contractors become the new norm for temporary nursing care.
Philanthropy is a team sport
By
Z. Allen Abbott, PhD
Marianna Calabrese
Cheryl Franceschi
Sarah Malchow
Lisa Woletz
Apr 22, 2024
The most essential characteristic for philanthropic success is teamwork. When all understand their vested interest in philanthropy’s success, and they understand the role they play, everyone wins.
An unofficial employee appreciation day
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 22, 2024
Tuesday was the day US News & World Report released its Best Senior Living ratings for 2024, and it also was an employee appreciation day of sorts.
Using AI to fill senior living staffing gaps
By
Honghao Deng
Apr 18, 2024
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, offer a way to help prevent lonely deaths and proactively identify potential long-term issues.
Jonesing for separate recognition
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 15, 2024
How is it that in my 11 years of writing about the long-term care profession, which has been talking about the coming “silver wave” of baby boomers all that time (and more), I don’t recall ever hearing...
Why pricing transparency in crucial in senior living
By
Lynne Moore
Apr 15, 2024
The next generation of senior consumers will be more discerning about how and where to spend their money — and in their definition of value.
How to get the most from automated marketing in senior living
By
Sean Leonard
Apr 04, 2024
Here is what we know to be true about automation implementation — what works, what doesn’t work and where you can save time, effort and money.
Ghosting: The new norm, or can we do better?
By
Melanie Perry, MS, CDP, CADDCT, CMDCP
Apr 01, 2024
I would like to challenge those of us in senior living to address and eliminate the frustrating, time- and resource-wasting trend of ghosting.