Provider groups partner to strengthen workforce, improve care coordination
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 15, 2024
The Florida Health Care Association and the Florida Assisted Living Association will collaborate to try to strengthen the long-term care workforce and improve the coordination of high-quality care.
‘Great Resignation’ becomes ‘Great Reshuffle’ of American jobs
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 16, 2024
After a record number of workers left their jobs in the early part of the decade in what was known as the “Great Resignation,” the American workforce has entered a period now dubbed the “Great Reshuffle,”...
Senior living ‘on the precipice of this defining moment,’ Argentum CEO says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 30, 2024
The senior living industry sits “on the precipice of this defining moment with significant challenges but also tremendous opportunities” to tell its story and help millions of older adults “live...
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.
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...
Emergency preparedness training key but often missing for frontline staff: expert
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 21, 2022
The pandemic made clear the essential role of frontline staff in crisis and disaster situations. Michael Wasserman, MD, past president of the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine, said it...
Timely advice that respects your time
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 18, 2021
Emergency preparedness. Culture. Workforce challenges. Occupancy. The changing nature of senior living. Those are some of the topics we are covering in our new Newsmakers Podcast series.
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...
Argentum works on Plan B as weather thwarts fly-in
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 26, 2018
Argentum is planning to find additional ways to discuss the Government Accountability Office’s assisted living-related report, home- and community-based services and other issues after the second...
Argentum selects 27 professionals for 2020-2021 Leadership Advancement and Development Program
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 10, 2020
Argentum has selected 27 professionals as part of its inaugural cohort for its senior living industry leadership development program.