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Senior Healthcare Blog

Looking for the latest workforce insights & strategies from top providers & industry experts? You’ve come to the right place. Our award-winning blog features fresh best practices around recruiting, hiring, managing and engaging senior care employees, so grab a fresh cup of joe, pull up a chair and jump right in.

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LeadingAge Strives To Solve Senior Care Workforce Challenges

November 7, 2018 | Anne Weisel

What do OnShift, goats and Ben Franklin have in common? They were all present at LeadingAge 2018 – the annual event for non-profit senior care organizations.

As a proud LeadingAge Silver Partner, all...

Ghosted By Candidates? Here Are 10 Reasons Why & How To Fix Them

October 29, 2018 | Tommy Marzella

Halloween may only last one day - but the scary reality of losing out on top-notch talent is a year-long event for some long-term care and senior living providers. What's even more haunting? The...

Senior Care HR Professionals Share Their Favorite Tactics For Hiring & Engaging Employees

October 25, 2018 | Jenna Berris

Last week, at theOhio Health Care Association 2018 Human Resources Conference, HR professionals gathered for a roundtable to answer the age-old question: how do we solve recruitment and retention...

Senior Care Leaders Tackle Workforce Challenges At AHCA/NCAL

October 19, 2018 | Peter Corless

Myself and several of my colleagues had a wonderful time mingling, learning and brainstorming ideas for overcoming senior care workforce challenges at this year’s AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo in San...

How To Make Your Senior Care Community A Top Place To Work

October 18, 2018 | Mike Pumphrey

To no surprise, there’s been a lot of buzz about Fortune Magazine and Great Place To Work’s first-ever curated list of the Best Workplaces in Aging Services. This is great publicity for an industry...

3 Reasons Senior Care Providers Should Embrace Instant Pay Models

October 15, 2018 | Tommy Marzella

The staffing shortage is here—and it’s not expected to let up anytime soon, as the long-term care and senior living industries will need nearly 2.5 million workers by 2030. Low unemployment, high...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Text-Based Recruiting: Connect With Candidates Faster Than The Speed Of Light

October 9, 2018 | Tommy Marzella

It’s no shock that recruiting employees in senior care is difficult. Providers are struggling to get candidates in the door. Hours of phone tag, interview no-shows and candidates accepting other...

[NEW WHITEPAPER] Labor Metrics That Matter In Senior Care

October 5, 2018 | Cari Rosenberger

What’s measured is managed. And for those in senior care, what’s measured is also what drives the success of your organization.

Is Marketing Our Mission The Key To Better Senior Care Recruitment?

September 27, 2018 | Lisa Fordyce

I came across a story about a recent college graduate who spent a summer living at a senior living community. I have to admit that my immediate reaction was one of shock – as I usually picture...

3 Ways Behavioral Health Providers Can Boost Employee Engagement

September 25, 2018 | Cari Rosenberger

According to a recent survey of 17 states from the National Core Indicator, the average turnover rate for direct support professionals (DSPs) is 45%. And other research, predicts turnover in the...

Nursing Assistants Are Financially Insecure - Here's Why It Matters

September 20, 2018 | Mike Pumphrey

15% of Skilled Nursing Assistants Live in Poverty Amid Stagnant Wages. That was the title of the hard-hitting article Skilled Nursing News recently published, which presented several scary statistics...

How One CCRC Reduced Turnover By 10% With Employee-Centric Scheduling

September 18, 2018 | Jim Rubadue

Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. A community uses pen and paper to make the staff schedule. When a call-off comes in, the scheduler spends hours calling down a list of employees until...