Senior living community for retired entertainers to benefit from $300 million fundraising effort
… Affordable senior housing communities set to receive $8M in renovation funding … Alpha Accredited...
Business briefs for Friday, Jan. 15
Jan 15, 2021
Seniors’ housing wealth reaches record $7.82T … EEOC schedules 2021 openings of EEO data collections after pandemic delay … AARP offers up 10 tips for reforming and improving nursing homes … Ryan...
Older adults who have received J&J need not be concerned: expert
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 20, 2021
Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at Johns Hopkins University, has a message for older adults who have received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine:...
The NBA can help seniors housing operators tackle the COVID-19 pandemic
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Amy Novotney
Jul 30, 2020
With the National Basketball Association set to resume its season tomorrow, COVID-19 is forcing the league to focus on new ways of doing business. And there’s a lot seniors housing and care can learn...
Social isolation: The underrated senior health risk
Jun 01, 2022
[Partner content] How senior living communities can build on growing awareness, innovative new programs and pandemic lessons learned to reduce loneliness and improve the mental and physical health of their...
Newly proposed legislation seeks to make it easier for small businesses to offer a retirement savings...
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 22, 2021
U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mark R. Warner (D-VA) on Wednesday introduced the SIMPLE Plan Modernization Act to provide greater flexibility and access to small businesses and their employees seeking...
Americans now will need more money for retirement — and other ways the pandemic is reshaping the future:...
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Amy Novotney
Nov 18, 2020
The COVID-19 virus will bring about sweeping changes in how Americans will face retirement and old age in the years to come, according to a new Wall Street Journal analysis. Some transformations will be...
Despite court order over noise pollution, graduate students become musicians-in-residence at Arizona...
By
Amy Novotney
Nov 30, 2021
Even as an Arizona life plan community and its residents continue to file noise complaints against a live music venue across the street, the in-house music scene is thriving at the community.
Trimming costs and creating operational efficiencies in a post-COVID world
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Amy Novotney
Apr 22, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic pushed senior living and care expenses to an all-time high, at a pace greater than what resident fee increases can absorb, taking the time to trim unnecessary costs and implement...
Investing in private rooms may have prevented nearly a third of COVID-19 long-term care infections, deaths:...
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Amy Novotney
Apr 27, 2021
Greater investment in proper infrastructure, including private rooms and adequate staffing, likely would have gone a long way in protecting long-term care residents from COVID-19 outbreaks, an international...