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...
Alzheimer’s Association calls for federal involvement to increase dementia care workforce, training...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 29, 2024
“Congress should consider the steps it can take at the federal level, including expanding the necessary workforce and improving dementia training standards and access,” as part of efforts to “help...
Quality, safety, accountability vital, industry leaders say, as Washington Post report cites deaths at...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 18, 2023
Senior living industry leaders stressed their belief in the importance of quality, safety and accountability Sunday in response to a package of articles in the Washington Post titled “Memory Inc.,”...
Memory care certification launches for assisted living communities
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 12, 2023
The Joint Commission, in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association, has launched a memory care certification program for assisted living communities.
Dollars spent on HCBS go further than those spent on nursing homes, study finds
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 29, 2023
Older adults are not “drawn out of the woodwork” to try to qualify for Medicaid benefits when a state expands home- and community-based services, according to the findings of a new study.
Brookdale Senior Living’s HealthPlus care coordination program expands to more communities
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 10, 2023
Brookdale Senior Living’s test of a value-based care coordination program for residents delivered “extremely promising” results, and the program now is being rolled out to additional communities,...
Federal bill would change ‘devastating’ guardianship system that affects senior living residents,...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 31, 2023
A bill introduced Thursday by Senate Aging Committee Chair Bob Casey (D-PA), the Guardianship Bill of Rights Act, “would address the nation’s patchwork guardianship system and explore alternatives...
2 reports of interest to anyone employing or serving women
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 20, 2023
An expected future report from the Government Accountability Office could be of interest to senior living operators as care and service providers to older adults and as employers. So could a new report...
This decline could be good news
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 21, 2023
Good news for older adults and those who care about them: The prevalence of disabilities among Americans aged 65 or more years is “much lower” than it was for the same age group a decade earlier.