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Board Leadership Helps Provider Weather the Pandemic

Post date October 11, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

Twenty-five years ago, seniors in West Virginia would be hard-pressed to find a retirement community in their state, which resulted in a mass exodus of older citizens to neighboring states. Recognizing this gap, a group of people from local hospitals and nursing homes identified and reached out to Greystone for […]

Hard Choices in Search of a Living Wage for Staff

Post date October 11, 2021
Post author By Gene

As LeadingAge members navigate through a nationwide staff recruitment and retention crisis, finding ways to boost compensation is a crucial part of finding staff to serve older adults—especially the direct care workers that make providers’ missions possible. To better understand how and why direct care work remains undervalued and poorly […]

Bringing Broadband, Devices, and Training to Affordable Housing Residents

Post date October 7, 2021
Post author By Gene

Lighthouse for Older Adults is an initiative bringing high-speed Wi-Fi and digital devices to low-income senior housing residents. The program was launched in 2020 by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute, a University of California research center focused on using […]

Putting Out a Red Carpet to Recruit New Employees

Post date September 29, 2021
Post author By Gene

As LTSS providers struggle to recruit new employees during an unprecedented workforce shortage, they are searching for new ways to recruit and attract potential frontline caregivers. This pool of candidates, 19 months into the pandemic, not only has a wide variety of employment options, but may be afraid to work […]

Pairing Jobs and Training for a New Generation of Employees

Post date September 29, 2021
Post author By Gene

Faced with a direct care workforce crisis that has been accelerated by the trauma of the pandemic, long-term services and supports (LTSS) providers are trying to find creative ways to boost recruitment and retention. One promising approach is to partner with high schools in programs that prepare students for LTSS […]

A Strategic Growth Plan Keeps This Organization Focused on the Future

Post date September 23, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

Rockwood Retirement Communities is a nonprofit life plan community operating two campuses in Spokane, WA: Rockwood South Hill and Rockwood at Whitworth. In 2016, the Rockwood leadership decided it was time to look long-term and start creating a strategic growth plan. Their main goal was to identify, sequence, and prioritize […]

Intergenerational Program Pairs Ambitious Students with Accomplished Elders as Mentors

Post date August 26, 2021
Post author By Gene

Senior to Senior is an intergenerational program imagined by high school students that matched them with residents of LeadingAge member Horizon House, Seattle, WA. The five-week program, which ended Aug. 17, built strong relationships and broke down stereotypes on both sides. The seven students who imagined and implemented the program […]

Smart Speaker Technology Helps Affordable Housing Residents Age in Place

Post date August 20, 2021
Post author By Gene

For affordable housing providers, preventing or mitigating social isolation among residents is a constant challenge that can be addressed with technology. Volunteers of America National Services (VOANS), a LeadingAge member that operates 484 affordable housing properties in 40 states and Puerto Rico, has joined Connected Communities, a program created by […]

An Annual “Walk in the Park” that Builds Bonds

Post date August 13, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

On a breezy, sunny day, the sounds of gentle chatter and gleeful laughs float through the treetops on the campus at Three Pillars Senior Living Communities, Dousman, WI. In a park-like wooded setting, with the Bark River running through the heart of it, the footsteps of 36 employees are accompanied […]

Using Simple Technology Upgrades to Build TV Studios for Resident Engagement

Post date August 12, 2021
Post author By Gene

On March 13, 2020, just 9 days after New Jersey’s first reported case of COVID-19, Fellowship Studios was born. Like other providers all over the country in the early days of the pandemic, Fellowship Village, Basking Ridge, NJ, found itself locking down and facing a whole new world of challenges. […]