After a difficult 2020 and 2021, the senior living industry seemed to hit its stride in 2022. With occupancy on the rise and a demand wave on the horizon in the form of the baby boomers, 2023 is shaping up to be a crucial year for growth and evolution. That said, the industry has many […]
Rising staffing costs. No-call, no-shows. Difficulty hiring and keeping workers. These are just a few of the human resources-related challenges that senior living leaders have faced in the last year. But as much as they would like to put the previous 12 months behind them, those stiff headwinds have also resulted in better staffing practices. […]
With contributions from Austin Montgomery, Tim Regan and Tim Mullaney The senior living industry is in a new era — one that is being led by a new class of leaders. Across the industry, senior living providers are forging new models for health care and wellness delivery in their communities, and in the process blazing […]
Senior living operators are offering employees more control over when and how often they work in an effort to stem a historic labor market. In the wake of the period known as the “great resignation,” employee flexibility is a trend that is impacting much of the workforce, just not senior living. In a survey of […]
Brightview Senior Living and Summit Vista have again come out on top in the annual Best Workplaces in Aging Services list. The list, now in its fourth year, ranks the top aging services workplaces among 25 large senior housing and care providers and 25 small- and medium-sized senior housing and care providers. The list is […]
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As the senior living industry shifts its focus from damage control to recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, recruitment and retention remain a leading industry challenge. Unlike national senior living providers that can devote large amounts of time and money to filling positions, smaller or mid-sized companies often must find more creative ways to recruit and […]
Brightview Senior Living and Summit Vista are the top workplaces in senior living for employee satisfaction, according to this year’s Best Workplaces in Aging Services list. Baltimore-based Brightview, which operates a portfolio of 42 communities, took the No. 1 spot among large providers for the second year in a row; while Summit Vista, a life […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has injected new stress and fear into senior living workers’ lives, and this has prompted some providers to implement new strategies in order to retain them. Flexible scheduling, higher pay, free meals and other services were not standard fare in the senior living industry before the pandemic, but providers now wield these […]
All of the companies included in this year’s Best Workplaces for Aging Services list share one thing in common: one way or another, they built a winning culture. The list, released Thursday, ranked the top 50 companies for employee satisfaction for both large and small-to-medium senior housing and care companies. Some notable names on this […]
