Center aims to help in recruiting, retention, training direct care workforce
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 04, 2024
States will be able to improve their systems for recruiting and retention of direct care workers via technical assistance from the National Council on Aging’s Direct Care Workforce Strategies Center.
Shoring up direct care workforce will take investment in recruitment, retention, career advancement,...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 22, 2023
Investments in recruitment, retention and career advancement opportunities are needed to stem the shrinking direct care workforce, researchers said Thursday in Health Affairs.
Nurse leaders identify emotional health, retention as top workforce challenges
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 21, 2022
Staff members’ emotional health and well-being, as well as staff retention, are among the top workforce challenges identified by nurse leaders responding to the latest survey by the American Organization...
Benefits outweigh wages for worker recruitment, retention: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 22, 2024
Seventy percent of respondents to a new survey say that better employer-sponsored benefits would be enough to entice them to make the jump to another job.
Improved onboarding process could boost worker retention
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 08, 2024
As long-term care providers navigate post-pandemic workforce challenges, they also need to improve the onboarding process, according to the results of a new survey by Viventium
Task force to study long-term care workforce challenges
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 02, 2024
A new task force in Wisconsin will work to find solutions to the staffing issues facing senior living, skilled nursing and other healthcare providers.
Immigration a possible answer to ‘demographic drought’ draining state’s workforce
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 19, 2023
A “demographic drought” brought about by an aging population, increasing retirements, declining fertility rates and lower immigration rates is threatening Minnesota’s workforce in general and in...
Workforce training program being evaluated by LeadingAge LTSS Center
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 08, 2023
The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston has been selected to evaluate the three-year Gateway-In Project, a workforce training initiative designed by LeadingAge California.
Career pathway programs can mitigate workforce shortages: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 21, 2023
Some states are looking at developing career pathway programs as a strategy to address or mitigate workforce shortages in long-term care, according to a recent report from the National Conference of State...
Workforce challenges threaten service delivery for PACE participants: Altarum
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 07, 2023
Workforce challenges threaten to complicate service delivery for Program for All Inclusive-Care for the Elderly participants, according to the results of the second and final Altarum PACE Pandemic Response...