By Katie Smith Sloan, President & CEO, LeadingAge Over the years, I’ve served as a board member — and sometimes as a board chair — for a variety of nonprofit organizations. I’ve loved my board service. It represents one of the best ways I’ve found to make a difference in the areas about which I Read More…
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Strategic Leadership
by Jeannee Parker Martin, President and CEO, LeadingAge California The pandemic took a toll on organizations across the country, and our members were not spared. Workforce shortages, operational challenges, ongoing impacts and burdens of COVID-19, and serious financial losses are sounding alarms at large and small organizations, regardless of the services they provide. At times, Read More…
New Technologies Support Quality Care During Staffing Challenges
A new survey from the American Health Care Association reports that nearly three-fourths of nursing homes are facing staffing shortages, and 73% are facing staffing issues that could force them to close. How do you ensure the safety and wellness of residents amid these staffing shortage? Bed exits by care home residents affected by cognitive Read More…
Healthy Aging for Older Adults Facilitated by Digital Fitness Program
By Geri Stengel, Forbes Exercise is essential for healthy aging. It can help prevent heart disease, strokes, and diabetes and improves the immune system. Working out can decrease your risk of falls. Because it produces endorphins, it can also improve your mental health. Two 31-year-old techies, Katie Reed and Kelly Froelich, started Balanced, a digital fitness app so Read More…
Aging Services Providers Can Help Advance Health Equity Through Better Data
By Amber Christ, Managing Director of Health Policy and Denny Chan, Managing Director of Equity Advocacy, Justice in Aging All of us are aging. However, how well we age and how long we live are too often determined by factors outside our control. Racism, ageism, ableism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination are structurally embedded Read More…
View from the Capitol
By Meghan Rose, General Counsel & Chief Government Affairs Officer and the policy team at LeadingAge California This September will mark the end of a two-year California Legislative session unlike any other. As California and the nation emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Legislature has struggled to increase legislative output to a pre-pandemic level while Read More…
The SAGE Study: Measures of Successful Aging
In today’s society, aging is often seen as synonymous with decline. “Most definitions of aging equate it with getting worse,” says geriatric neuropsychiatrist Dr. Dilip Jeste. “I wondered if that was necessarily true.” While many studies focus on the diseases of aging, as Director of the Stein Institute at UC San Diego, Jeste wanted to explore Read More…
Senior Living Providers Turning to Alexa to Enhance Well-Being and Connectedness
by Therese Ten-Brinke, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Eskaton Voice-first technology is disrupting the way residents access services and information within senior living. Senior living operators are using Alexa devices for functions ranging from calling their family to asking for the daily events and menu. Since 2018, Eskaton has deployed 1,000 Echo Dot devices and earlier Read More…
Tools to Optimize Quality Dementia Care: Tackling Loneliness and Social Isolation for Residents with Dementia Care
By Kathleen Weissberg, National Director of Education, Select Rehabilitation During normal times, individuals with dementia are among the most vulnerable persons in society. The pandemic further exacerbated their vulnerability, due to the direct physical effects of COVID-19 and indirect effects on social supports upon which they depend. For those with dementia, social connection means everything; Read More…
Creating Joy at Work
By Katie Wade, Senior Director of Creative Engagement, and Jessica McCracken, Director, Covia’s Creative Spark By now, you’ve noticed that you aren’t the same person you were before the pandemic and global events of the past two years. Perhaps you’ve taken inventory of the physical and emotional toll that you, your loved ones, coworkers, and Read More…