Of all the challenges senior living providers face during Covid-19, maintaining frontline staffing levels is one of the hardest and most expensive to address. The issue has many facets. The first is that, in looking after an at-risk population of older adults, senior living caregivers are also at an elevated risk for contracting Covid-19. In […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many senior living providers to retool their dining programs in short order. The operational challenges have been intense and in some cases “gut-wrenching,” as they fly in the face of dining leaders’ natural inclinations to bring residents together and offer the highest-caliber experiences possible. Indeed, many providers have spent considerable […]
As an industry veteran who got his start as a teenager in the 1970s, Premier Senior Living Co-Founder, Managing Member and CEO Wayne Kaplan had seen it all — until Covid-19 made its global debut this year. Now, like many other senior living providers, New York City-based Premier is navigating uncharted waters. So far, the […]
Affinity Living Group (ALG) has furloughed 70 corporate workers and parted ways with a handful of company leaders — including its COO, Neal Lail. As part of a corporate restructuring, Affinity on Monday parted ways with Lail and its senior vice president of operations. The Hickory, North Carolina-based company also furloughed its senior vice president […]
A sizable portion of the U.S. hospitality workforce is out of work thanks to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic — and if senior living providers want to hire them, now is the time to start reaching out. That’s according to Adam Kaplan, founder and CEO of Solera Senior Living. The Denver-based provider, which has three communities […]
Last week, Phoenix Senior Living got the news every other provider is dreading right now: three of its residents at a community in Canton, Georgia, had symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Days later, all three had a presumptive positive test result. For the Roswell, Georgia-based senior living provider, the moment […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has temporarily expanded telehealth services to include all Medicare beneficiaries, and senior living residents may stand to benefit as a result. CMS announced on Tuesday that Medicare will now pay clinicians to provide telehealth services on a temporary basis for beneficiaries who live across the country, and […]
Local bans on public gatherings to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have shuttered restaurants, bars and nightclubs across the country, leaving many suddenly out of work or uncertain where their next paycheck will come from. But the senior living industry could help absorb some of the blow by hiring these workers, which would also fill […]
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The rapid spread of Covid-19 is putting new communities at risk every day — and providers across the country should prepare for an outbreak near them sooner rather than later. As of Wednesday, almost 53% of roughly 33,000 U.S. senior housing and care communities in the U.S. are located in or adjacent to a county […]
