Senior living has come a long way in the past half-century. Assisted living, for instance, started as a social model; but what we see today was born out ...

A survey should bring assisted living out of the shadows of nursing homes and shine a light on the workforce in that setting, one author said.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — To work as an aide in an assisted-living center in Ohio requires empathy, compassion and very little training. About 20 hours, to be exact. In Kansas, it’s much different. Aides ...

The American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living launched a new workforce campaign, Caregivers for Tomorrow, on Tuesday, calling for federal efforts to bolster the workforce ...

A new study, The National Dementia Workforce Study (NDWS), sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, will solicit information from caregivers to examine workforce dynamics, training and job ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The 95-year-old dementia patient lay asleep in her room at Close to Home assisted living in Middletown, unaware of the danger at her door. Minutes after 5 a.m., Gary Earls snuck in, ...

They listened and listened until the beeps and boops finally made sense. And then it was time to go. A husband and wife briefly escaped from a secure memory unit at an assisted living facility in ...