Looking back on our coverage of the senior living industry and the issues that affected it in 2016, several common themes emerge. Five are detailed in this year-end review.
Long-term care needs relief to sustain services through omicron and beyond, LeadingAge tells Biden
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 26, 2022
LeadingAge is calling on the Biden administration and Congress to deliver an emergency relief package to sustain senior living and other long-term care providers through the omicron variant of COVID-19...
40 percent of senior living CEOs could be retiring within 5 years
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 26, 2018
Forty percent of senior living CEOs could be retiring within the next five years, making succession planning an urgent matter, suggests a recent survey sponsored by LeadingAge.
Addressing caregiving gap needs international perspective, panelists say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 27, 2022
Workforce challenges in long-term care are a global challenge, so solutions need to come from sharing best practices, policies and solutions on a global level.
3 takeaways from the LeadingAge-CEMO Executive Compensation Study
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 18, 2015
The 2015 LeadingAge-CEMO Executive Compensation Study provides insights into succession planning, incentive pay and gender differences in pay and title.
Sloan takes the stage at LeadingAge
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 02, 2015
Incoming President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan addressed attendees at a general session Monday that also included remarks by author Atul Gawande, M.D., and new board chair Kathryn Roberts as well as the...
Long-term care advocates lay out 3 goals for Biden team to make 2021 ‘new beginning’ for older adults
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 09, 2020
Fighting COVID-19, ensuring access to long-term services and supports, and improving access to affordable housing are among the suggested actions LeadingAge laid out Tuesday to President-elect Joe Biden’s...
Biden administration could withhold funds from long-term care providers to encourage worker vaccination
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 09, 2021
Biden administration officials are considering withholding funds from long-term-care providers that they say aren’t doing enough to encourage employee vaccinations, according to unnamed sources quoted...
Could a national vaccine mandate be coming to senior living?
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 24, 2021
Following Wednesday’s announcement that COVID-19 vaccines will be mandated by the federal government for nursing homes, could a similar national requirement be in store for senior living? It might be...
People in the news, June 20
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Alyssa Salela
Jun 19, 2017
New appointments, promotions and honors related to Acts Retirement-Life Communities, Aegis Living, Asbury Group, Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, Erickson Living, Friendship, Integral Senior Living, LCB Senior...