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.
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.
We have met the enemy …
By
John O'Connor
Apr 11, 2024
How can senior living communities reduce defections? There may not be one silver bullet, but there are lots of good bullets to be found.
Shaping a better future for the human resources function in senior living and care
By
Dean Moore
Mar 25, 2024
The future of human resources may not be what it used to be, but it still could be bright for the right individuals.
Funding for home care infrastructure must come with new staffing concepts
By
Liza Berger
Jun 18, 2021
While money is a big part of the solution — in terms of wages and benefits and hiring — it is not the only answer to the massive home care workforce shortage.
How to foster a positive culture within your organization
By
Jared Darlington
Apr 26, 2021
An organization’s culture (or lack thereof) most likely will be highlighted (or exposed) during a time of change. It may be a leadership shift, an acquisition or even the introduction of new processes...
Making diversity, equity and inclusion do more than ‘count’
By
Geneva Stark, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Sun, J.D., Ph.D.
Heather Turner, Ph.D.
Todd Schmiedeler
Priscila Mattingly
Jun 21, 2021
Through focusing on belonging and enabling every employee to feel accepted and welcomed, senior living organizations can maintain a staff with the diversity of experiences and views necessary to thrive...
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.
Mentoring young leaders for senior living sustainability
By
Ethan Cole
Mar 11, 2024
How do we inspire such young leaders to stay with our companies and build them into the powerhouses our senior executives present today? Mentorship programs.
Home care’s greatest challenge and opportunity is its workforce
By
Helen Adeosun
May 25, 2021
With a rapidly aging population that increasingly wishes to age in place even before the pandemic, the demand for home care will continue to increase against the backdrop of existing care worker shortages.