One of the big focuses of senior care that has emerged in the post-COVID world is the need for shifting the emphasis of care from the nursing home to a more decentralized manner, such as what in-home care provides. Employment … [Read more...]
Is the Care Shortage Getting Better?
Regular readers of this blog know that the care shortage has been a main topic of discussion for years, even before the word “coronavirus” was in our vocabulary. While the pandemic exposed a lot of weaknesses in the care system, including … [Read more...]
Preparing Your Family for a Senior Care Shortage
For years, senior care experts have predicted that there will be a large shortage in workers compared to the number of people that require assistance. This makes sense if you look at the demographic numbers. After World War Two ended, the … [Read more...]
Greater Action Needed to Fight Senior Care Worker Shortage
The news has been covering President Biden’s infrastructure plan pretty closely as it moves throughout the legislative process. In the middle of this plan designed to help make navigating through the American system a little bit easier is a … [Read more...]
When the Senior Care Shortage Comes Home
If you’ve spent any time on our website over the past few years, you’ve heard me talk about the potential of a senior care shortage. The condensed version of this problem rests with the fact that the Baby Boomer generation was the biggest … [Read more...]
How to Avoid the Senior Care Shortage
During the pandemic, we saw something happen in the senior care industry that has been brewing for many years. In mass numbers, something that has been a simmering, smaller scale problem for years burst into the international spotlight in a … [Read more...]
Technology and Tackling Care Shortages
Tackling care shortages in some parts of the world might be getting a little easier. This isn’t due to more caregivers or new and improved nursing homes. Rather, by utilizing the resources that we already have on hand more efficiently, some … [Read more...]
How Canada is Revamping Senior Care
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, vowed that extensive changes would be made in the Canadian senior care system recently. This report came about because of military involvement in many of the care facilities across the country. … [Read more...]
The Senior Care Staff Shortage Today
As you probably, there has been a senior care staff shortage that has been building up in the United States for the last several years. As the number of senior citizens grows, the number of people working in this industry has needed to … [Read more...]
Good News for the Care Shortage
Yesterday, I talked about how the senior care shortage could have a negative impact on a community. Although this can be a very serious issue, as it is for the residents of Kearney, Nebraska, not all communities are being impacted in such a … [Read more...]
What Does a Care Shortage Mean?
A lot of senior care businesses make promises about what they can do for your family, but unfortunately, these are not always accurate. Promises and reality are not always the same. Just because a care agency claims that it will do … [Read more...]
Handling the Senior Care Worker Shortage
The population of senior citizens in the United States is rapidly growing. For the most part, this is a good thing. It means that life expectancy is going up, which is a general indicator that things like healthcare, diet, and lifestyle are … [Read more...]
