Around one in four caregivers have experienced some form of food insecurity over the past year, according to a newly updated report from Kare, a digital workforce marketplace for post-acute and senior living operators. For the third part of its “Trauma and Resiliency” survey series, the company polled 1,142 certified nursing assistants, certified medication aides, […]
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Fewer than half of nurses working in the senior housing and care sector feel “psychologically safe” in their workspace. That’s according to a new survey from Kare, a digital labor marketplace for post-acute and senior living operators. The report, released this week in collaboration with the National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA), is the […]
Building in more flexibility to worker schedules is not a new strategy for the senior living industry. But in 2024, operators are still tweaking those strategies to improve their staffing practices. The concept has worked well in other customer-facing industries. After global retailer Ikea faced a turnover problem in 2022 and 2023, the company implemented […]
Nearly three-quarters of frontline workers in senior housing and care communities face intermediate to high levels of toxic stress between prior traumas and the current working environment. That’s according to a new survey conducted by digital labor marketplace Kare in collaboration with the National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA). The analysis was based on […]
“Staffing agencies suck.” That’s a marketing tagline for staffing solution KARE, and it’s as bold as they come. But they did not write it. Their senior living clients did. “It’s really something we started to hear when we started the company, and we would reach out to communities and try to explain what we were […]
Financings VIUM Capital Closes $200M in Senior Housing, Healthcare Vium capital announed it closed approximately $200 million worth of deals in seniors housing and healthcare in the month of August. The $200 million figure comes from six financings that included 28 separate projects in nine different states. For example, Vium closed on a $7.7 million […]
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Senior living industry veteran Cheryl Crooks is making the jump from PointClickCare to join senior living staffing startup Kare as chief strategy officer. Crooks is joining the company after eight years at PointClickCare, where she last worked as a regional vice president leading the company’s senior care market development team. She has spent the last […]
As 2022 begins, headlines are unfortunately reminiscent of 2020, featuring news of Covid-19 case counts, global disruptions to business and transportation, and even whole cities going into lock down. But for the U.S. senior living industry, history will not repeat itself in 2022. That’s thanks largely to the number of residents vaccinated against Covid-19 and […]
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