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In two recent interviews in newsletters for health care professionals, long-term care experts discussed ways of better supporting direct-care workers. Interviewed in the summer issue of IGSW News,  (doc) the newsletter of Boston University’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work, PHI President Steven Dawson says: “The workforce crisis in long-term care is at last getting some [...]

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A profile of Alice Hedt in one of the leading magazines for long-term care providers praises her ability to work well with providers without compromising her standards. That rare talent, says the article, has won the nursing home consumer advocate praise from “an industry she frequently seems to tweak.” The article ran in the July issue of McKnight’s [...]

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If you want to reduce nursing assistant turnover at your facility, you need to improve working conditions — maybe hire more direct-care staff, give your supervisors management training, or include direct-care workers more in decision making and care planning. But motivating nursing assistants to stay in the profession long-term requires a whole different set of [...]

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A newly awarded federal grant will fund continuing research and analysis on how to strengthen and support the personal assistance services workforce. The University of California San Francisco’s five-year-old Center for Personal Assistance Services (PAS Center) learned last week that is has been funded for another five years by the National Institute on Disability and [...]

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“If I had only one sentence, this would be it: Direct support work is a highly skilled job,” says Amy Hewitt. “It’s not viewed that way by society – or, frankly, by many employers – but not everybody can do this job. You have to be smart; you have to be able to problem solve; [...]

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When long-term care opinion leaders were surveyed about the challenges facing our long-term care delivery and financing system, the challenge they named most often was the workforce. The first national survey of what long-term care experts think about the state of long-term care in the U.S.A. and how it can be reformed tallied the responses of 1,147 people (44.5 percent [...]

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