The Covid-19 pandemic has created myriad problems for senior living providers. But these problems are not insurmountable, and companies across the industry are devising creative solutions. In this series, we’re surveying industry leaders to highlight these actionable solutions. With Covid-19 surging in markets around the country, we kick off the series by asking: How do […]
Senior living workforce challenges mounted over the course of the summer, with employee engagement falling and turnover increasing. That’s according to data gathered by Activated Insights from about 250,500 senior living and care employees. Activated Insights is the senior care division of Great Place to Work, the organization that puts together the annual Great Places […]
The Black Lives Matter movement focused global attention on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion this year, and senior living providers have responded in various ways to calls for change. This work has been ongoing at National Church Residences, one of the largest nonprofit senior housing providers in the United States, with about 310 senior […]
Tyler Belanger has slept in his office since mid-March. Belanger, owner of Shady Oaks Assisted Living in Bristol, Connecticut, gave up his home next door to the 36-unit facility for staff members to live in during the coronavirus pandemic. Other staff are living in five recreational vehicles Belanger purchased, and still others are living in […]
Online job search company Monster is teaming up with the Massachusetts Senior Care Association and the MIT-based Covid-19 Policy Alliance to help fill more than a thousand jobs in long-term care — and the state of Massachusetts is offering $1,000 in potential bonuses for new recruits. Under the new initiative “From Home to Help,” Monster […]
Working in a senior living community in the midst of Covid-19 is far from easy, but for many associates, stress is stemming largely from their situations at home. Senior living providers that can find ways to alleviate these challenges could retain more workers in this time when maintaining staffing levels is crucial. In a recent […]
Covid-19 presents enormous challenges for senior living providers across the country, but the pandemic is hitting operators in the current epicenters of New York and New Jersey particularly hard. As of the afternoon of April 20, total Covid-19 cases in New York state were approaching 243,000, while New Jersey’s cases were above 85,300. By comparison, […]
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 […]
Mass layoffs put thousands of people out of work in the United States over the last two weeks as the Covid-19 crisis deepened. Senior living providers hope to recruit and hire many of these newly unemployed people — and one major regional provider is well on the way to doing so. Over the one-week time […]
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 […]