Economist Milton Friedman once wrote that “only a crisis—real or perceived—produces real change.” We’re still in the middle of the crisis called COVID. I know you still struggle to meet the unprecedented challenges that this deadly virus throws at you every single day. But even in the midst of our […]
COVID-19 is our “chief transformation officer.” That’s how Susheel Ladwa, CEO of Onyx Health, described the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on providers of aging services. His remarks came during the Collaborative Care HIT Summit, which the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) held 2 weeks ago. The virtual […]
It’s been gratifying to hear news reporters and policy makers describe direct care workers as “essential” during the coronavirus pandemic. I’m glad people outside our field are finally giving certified nursing assistants and home health aides the recognition they deserve for offering life-sustaining care and daily support to people who are […]
It’s so easy to feel paralyzed as we face the hard truths about systemic racism in America. After all, what can one person or one organization do to reverse the social injustice that has permeated American culture for hundreds of years? This question has kept me up at night. Part […]
The nightly television news over the past week in Washington, DC and around the country featured 2 strong images that will come to epitomize our summer of 2020. The first image: Congressional leaders of both parties, standing at their respective podiums, bickering and debating the pros and cons of the […]
You probably remember the moment in the 1939 classic film, The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy Gale emerges from her old house, looks around her new technicolor world, and informs her dog, “I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” I had a similar feeling last week during the […]
I met 3 dedicated and courageous women last week. Not in person, but in the pages of The New York Times. Paula, a home health aide, works 12-hour shifts for a care recipient in Manhattan. She carefully disinfects herself after work each night because she cares for a person who […]
COL (Ret.) Paul W. Bricker and Stephen P. Fleming don’t have much good to say about the months they’ve spent on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Bricker, chief operating officer of Knollwood, a life plan community in Washington, DC, calls COVID-19 “a pernicious enemy.” Fleming, president and CEO […]
Almost one-third of COVID-19 infections nationwide have affected black Americans. News articles use words like “extraordinary,” “disproportionate,” and “cataclysmic” to describe the supporting data. But is it news? Racism is not new. It has plagued our nation for 400 years. And the never-ending inequalities have carried that plague from generation […]
Over the past few months, all of us have found ourselves wishing for a time, in the not-so-distant-future, when “this will all be over” and “things will return to normal.” That kind of wishful thinking was on full display over Memorial Day weekend, as Americans tried our best to celebrate […]
