For the third year, LeadingAge will partner with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), AHCA/NCAL, Argentum, and the Erickson School of Aging Services at UMBC, to sponsor Careers in Aging Week. The focus will be increasing awareness of careers in aging on social media.
While job fairs and site visits are not an option during the pandemic, we still have a great opportunity to highlight the aging services field and the incredible, heroic individuals who work in it.
Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) announced that participation for the 2021-2022 Salary & Benefits study focused on Life Plan Communities (CCRCs), as well as Nursing Home settings, are now open. This year marks the 24th annual year of publication for the CCRC report, and 44th year of the Nursing Home study respectively. The study is conducted in cooperation with LeadingAge and supported by NCAL. New this year: Infection Preventionist has been added to the studies.
Our approach begins with providers—thousands of people working at life plan communities, assisted living, memory care, nursing homes, adult day centers, PACE programs, home care and hospice agencies, and other settings on the front lines of care and services. We host LeadingAge Town Hall Conversations across the country, listening to members’ policy challenges and considering solutions together. These sessions, held virtually in 2020, were deeply colored by the battle aging services providers are waging with COVID.
Attract them to our field by showing the ways that employees with hospitality, restaurant, and retail backgrounds can easily be integrated into our field with their specific skills. Let them know that older adult services is a growing field with this one-pager, and the many different kinds of positions in a section in the Center for Workforce Solutions showcasing people working in our communities.
Just a little over a month into the mass vaccination process for older adults and aging services providers, members are already deeply pondering – and fielding questions from families, staff, and older adults on – how and when we can ‘reopen’ and daily life can ‘return to normal.’ While the summer and early fall saw a flurry of “reopening guidelines” from states and federal agencies, as yet there aren’t many such agencies, if any, that have issued guidance for a post-vaccination reopening strategy for aging services providers.
President Joe Biden released his $1.9 Trillion “American Rescue Plan: Emergency Legislative Package to Fund Vaccinations, Provide Immediate, Direct Relief to Families Bearing the Brunt of the COVID-19 Crisis, and Support Struggling Communities.” The Plan provides a roadmap to guide America out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The package is organized around seven goals to address the healthcare, economic, and societal harms caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mentor’s Voice is LeadingAge’s latest podcast featuring stories and advice from leaders in our field. Released twice a month, on Tuesdays, Mentor's Voice, is a candid conversation between students and leaders about how and why they became a leader in an aging services organization. Along with some laughs, Mentor’s Voice disseminates words of wisdom and guidance to emerging leaders along their career journey.
LeadingAge is embarking on a major initiative, called for in our newly adopted strategic plan, to help members achieve greater diversity in their organizations.
We’re launching this initiative because we believe that striving for diversity and inclusion in all facets of our organizations is the right thing to do.
The national average of hourly rates for CNAs saw a 5.71%, with Lead CNAs seeing an hourly rate incrase of 7.28% in 2020, according to the 2020-2021 ALF Salary & Benefits Report. Overall, the national average rate for CNAs was $13.92 in 2020, where analysis by state showed that CNAs in Georgia and North Carolina received the lowest hourly rates of $12.15 and $12.24. CNAs in Massachusetts reported the second highest hourly rates of $16.16; while California hourly rates were the highest at $16.66. T
