Harnessing analytics to optimize staff efficiency and reduce burnout in senior living
By
Kunaal Goel
May 16, 2024
it is important to use technology to optimize staff efficiency and avoid staff burnout, especially as we consider the incoming demographic changes with the baby boomer generation aging into senior living...
DOL rule will hurt many senior living workers over time
By
John O'Connor
Apr 25, 2024
It’s a bit exhausting to keep writing about ways good intentions from our regulatory agencies keep fueling disastrous outcomes.
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.
Assisted living providers can take steps to address workforce shortages, quality, Alzheimer’s Association...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 22, 2024
As federal lawmakers ponder ways to address workforce shortages and quality in senior living communities and other long-term care settings, the Alzheimer’s Association and its advocacy affiliate, the...
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.
Bill promises ‘generational investment’ in senior living and care workforce
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 17, 2024
Proposed federal legislation would make a “generational investment” in the senior living and care workforce at a time when the aging population is growing exponentially and an increasing number of...
SNFs, CCRCs ‘off the pace’ for recruiting, retaining workers: Fitch
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 16, 2024
Skilled nursing facilities and continuing care retirement / life plan communities “are still well off the pace needed to reach a full post-pandemic recovery” in terms of their workforces, according...
2 federal bills look to boost pipeline of healthcare workers
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 12, 2024
Bills introduced in both houses of Congress may bolster the healthcare workforce if they become law.
Business briefs, April 12
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 12, 2024
Senior living ‘on cusp of notable upswing,’ NIC says as new report series launches … House bill calls for $1.6B program to bolster nursing home workforce … Initial unemployment claims fell by...
Burnout, poor staffing substantially contribute to nurses leaving healthcare
Apr 11, 2024
The authors say that the leading reasons nurses leave healthcare signal opportunities for employers to reattract an existing nurse workforce.