Recent advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, offer a way to help prevent lonely deaths and proactively identify potential long-term issues.
The answer to tackling the staffing crisis: start with the culture
By
Katherine Wells
Feb 29, 2024
We have been faced with a pressing long-term care dilemma for the last several years, and it is only getting worse.
Address staff burnout with innovative communication technology
By
Gary Hamilton
Dec 07, 2023
By embracing innovative communication technologies, senior living communities can revolutionize interactions between staff members and families, ensuring swift and unified information-sharing.
Mental healthcare for our workers is essential
By
Tom Grape
Oct 16, 2023
The emotional and economic value of providing mental healthcare access to workers and their families is tangible and measurable. It’s also the right thing to do.
‘Opportunities’ for job-seekers equal challenges for employers
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 17, 2023
Add a Department of Labor blog earlier this month to the efforts undertaken to attract more people to jobs in healthcare, including positions often found in senior living and other parts of long-term care....
The complexity of workforce shortages
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 27, 2023
Results of a new survey drive home the complexity of workforce shortages and point out how solving them could address other business challenges. Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe that there aren’t...
Best way to honor caregivers? Address the workforce crisis
By
James Balda
Feb 22, 2023
In addition to remembering the caregivers our country has been blessed with, we should call on policymakers to do more to resolve our workforce crisis.
Employee retention according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
By
Jamie Merrill
Nov 21, 2022
Programs that focus on peer recognition and engagement can motivate employees during the first months and well beyond to help with retention.
The challenges of recruiting and retaining employees
By
Jason Zuccari
Nov 10, 2022
The long-term care staffing crisis did not begin with COVID-19, but it was exacerbated by it. Now, we need to figure out what to do about it.
It’s time to take caregiver needs seriously
By
Nora Super
Oct 03, 2022
Until we make caregiving issues as important to lawmakers as infrastructure and energy, we can act on three critical intermediary steps.