By Geralyn Magan LeadingAge learned a great deal during 2016 when it used 5 different surveys to collect information about its members. A new report summarizes major findings from the surveys. LeadingAge members are generally well-established organizations that operate in more than one service setting, employ their own W-2 staff…...
New Report: A Portrait of LeadingAge Members
By Geralyn Magan LeadingAge learned a great deal during 2016 when it used 5 different surveys to collect information about its members. A new report summarizes major findings from the surveys. LeadingAge members are generally well-established organizations that operate in more than one service setting, employ their own W-2 staff…...
Person-Centered Care Increases Satisfaction Among Nursing Home Residents
Findings from a recent study by the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston (formerly the LeadingAge Center for Applied Research) were published this summer in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). Older adults express higher levels of satisfaction with quality of care and quality of life when their…...
6 Ways to Address the LTSS Workforce Crisis
By Geralyn Magan Workforce challenges in the field of aging services will get far worse over the next 20 years unless policy makers, providers, and other stakeholders work together aggressively on solutions, writes Robyn Stone in Public Policy and Aging Report. Most providers of long-term services and supports (LTSS) struggle…...
Analysis of the National Home Health Aide Survey
Describing workforce characteristics and evaluating the interrelationships among workforce characteristics, job quality, and other worker and facility characteristics and quality of care. LeadingAge Center for Applied Research, in partnership with Social and Scientific Systems, Inc. (SSS), will be conducting analyses using the 2007 National Home Health Aide survey to provide technical…...
Teaching and Learning about Home Care in Israel
By Geralyn Magan During a recent visit to Israel, Robyn Stone gave advice on how Israel could expand its home care sector, and asked questions about the country’s efforts to attract and support foreign-born home care workers. Teaching and learning were both on the itinerary when Robyn Stone visited Israel…...
Workforce Center is Open for Business
By Geralyn Magan The decision to create the Center for Workforce Solutions stems from conversations with LeadingAge members across the country who are facing enormous workforce challenges. The new LeadingAge Center for Workforce Solutions is officially open for business. The center focuses on disseminating workforce-related resources for the aging services…...
New Report: Helping Members Address Workforce Challenges
By Natasha S. Bryant A new report from the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston provides insight into workforce-related challenges facing LeadingAge members as they strive to provide high-quality services and supports to older adults. A new report from LeadingAge highlights major findings from a 2017 survey designed to gather baseline…...
How Hebrew SeniorLife Plans to Bring Wellness to Housing
By Geralyn Magan An 18-month demonstration program implemented by Hebrew SeniorLife will test whether an onsite wellness team could help residents of affordable senior housing remain healthier and more independent. When July 1 dawned in Boston, MA, 400 residents of 6 affordable senior housing communities began an 18-month experiment to…...