Senate committee ponders child care challenges with eye toward helping employers, workers
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 15, 2024
As long-term care employers continue to face challenges in recruiting and retaining workers and some employees and potential employees struggle to navigate child care arrangements that make it possible...
Caregivers more financially burdened, less prepared for large emergency expenses
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 19, 2023
Caregivers are more likely to be burdened by finances and less likely to be prepared than noncaregivers for large emergency expenses, according to data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Business briefs, Nov. 28
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 28, 2023
End-of-year priorities for employers … CMS expected to target emergency preparedness after scathing OIG reports … Two-thirds of those 50+ anxious about assisted living affordability: survey
Business briefs, Nov. 14
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 14, 2023
DOL shares FLSA measures, compliance requirements for Southeast caregivers … Experts urge Congress to reauthorize National Advisory Committee for Seniors and Disasters … White House expands no-cost...
Senior living should be ‘hubs of revitalization,’ expert says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 08, 2023
Senior living in the future will be more of a “community hub, not the old-age ‘ghetto,’” predicted Bob Kramer, speaking Tuesday during a panel discussion at the 2023 Future of Health Summit sponsored...
Caryl and Scott Ridgeway acquire Milestone Retirement Communities
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 20, 2023
Milestone Retirement Communities CEO Caryl Ridgeway and her husband, Scott, are announcing that they recently assumed total ownership of the Vancouver, WA-based independent living, assisted living, memory...
Lack of emergency savings No. 1 stressor for US workers
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 13, 2023
Emergency savings ranks as the major savings goal for US workers, according to new research by Fidelity Investments.
Pathway Health launches workforce development initiative
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 29, 2023
Lake Elmo, MN-based Pathway Health has developed a new workforce initiative meant to address the need to fill leadership roles in senior living and skilled nursing.
Lessons from the pandemic can help ensure caregivers’ mental health and well-being
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 27, 2023
Healthcare organizations’ disaster preparedness plans must include “explicit plans for supporting mental health,” say the authors of a new piece in JAMA Psychiatry.
Sunrise earns WELL health-safety rating across North American portfolio
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 10, 2023
McLean, VA-based Sunrise Senior has become the largest senior living provider to adopt the WELL Health-Safety Rating for Facility Operations and Management across its entire portfolio, the company announced...