For years, care experts have been warning us about the possibility of a senior care crisis. The number of seniors in the U.S. is growing significantly, and unless the number of caregivers and services also grows, there might not be enough … [Read more...]
Helping Seniors with Disabilities Connect to Care
Seniors with disabilities often face a shortage of services that can have a negative impact on the quality of life that they experience. There’s a big disconnect for some parts of the country when it comes to connecting people … [Read more...]
Why Do Seniors Not Get the Care They Need?
All around the country, efforts to give senior citizens the care that they need have expanded. The knowledge that the population of seniors is growing rapidly along with the fact that there are simply not enough caregivers out there right … [Read more...]
Technology for Senior Care Staff
If you are a frequent visitor to this blog (thanks, by the way!), you know that one of my favorite topics to write about is the senior care staff shortage. It’s something that has been on our radar here for years, and it’s something that … [Read more...]
What Does a Care Shortage Look Like?
It’s no secret that we are experiencing a labor shortage here in the United States. One of the places where this is most visible right now is in the realm of senior care. Not only are there a lot of job openings in this field, but care … [Read more...]
How Employment Gaps are Hurting Senior Care
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...]