Americans plan their vacations in more painstaking detail than they plan for aging, even though the aging stage of life lasts much longer, said Peter Ross, CEO of Senior Helpers. After meeting Richard Wexler, host of the podcast Caring in America about a year and a half ago, they decided to launch a nonprofit foundation to help Americans plan their aging journeys and be proactive. The result is APlan2Age.org. Unlike other sites that provide resources, APlan2Age is noncommercial and does not seek to profit off the site, Ross said, noting that Senior Helpers is an advisory council member. He encourages other home care firms to reach out and help support the site. One of the site's signature aspects is a care plan that visitors can fill out and modify over time. Ross noted that the purpose of APlan2Age is to try to prepare for the aging process as a way to head off a catastrophic life event. Families, for example, might talk about installing grab bars in loved ones’ showers to help prevent falls. Wexler learned about the importance of planning the hard way — when he and his wife were thrust into caregiving roles for their parents in their 80s. One of the big reasons to prepare for aging is to take pressure off family caregivers who shoulder most of the burden of caring for aging family members, Ross said. The next big development for APlan2Age will be Tuesday, July 29, at 1 pm ET, when Ross and Wexler hold a webinar entitled “The National Conversation on Aging.”

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The need and opportunity for senior living providers to serve middle-income older adults have been in the spotlight especially since 2019. In this Newsmaker's podcast, Melissa Andrews, president and CEO of LeadingAge Virginia, joins McKnight's Senior Living Editor Lois Bowers to discuss what has changed from 2019 to now, as well as important considerations — and new resources on the way — for those who wish to serve the middle market. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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In this episode, we explore how Eventide Senior Living Communities is transforming the post acute and senior living experience by investing in its most valuable asset—its people. Joined by Kayla Linn, Chief People Office from Eventide and Gavin Reeg, Healthcare Solutions Consultant from UKG, we discuss how leveraging UKG's AI-driven, people first solutions helped Eventide boost employee engagement, improve efficiencies, including significant time savings with PBJ reporting, and ultimately enhance resident care. For example, by utilizing UKG solutions, Eventide was able to reduce PBJ reporting time by 99% from 16-20 manual hours per cycle down to seconds with the click of a button. Hear how the right technology can support a culture of trust, improve work-life balance for caregivers, and position senior living organizations for long-term success in an evolving industry.

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As Tutera Senior Living and Health Care marks its 40th anniversary, President/COO Randy Bloom shares with McKnight's Senior Living Editor Lois A. Bowers how the company is meeting evolving resident expectations and the industry's ongoing challenges related to employee recruitment and retention, and he also discusses the organization's growth strategy and the country's increasing need for more affordable senior living options. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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While most long-term care providers understandably dread the staffing recruitment and retention problems that face virtually everyone in the business, there’s a different mindset at Tutera Senior Living & Health Care. They call staffing a “huge opportunity.”

It’s the type of proactive optimism that has led Tutera, which manages 86 communities in 10 mostly Midwestern states, to rise up and embark on a year-long, multi-tiered 40th anniversary celebration.

“Our outlook is very bright. We continue to grow for the right reasons and we’re growing in a way that allows us to be successful,” Tutera President and COO Randy Bloom tells Executive Editor James M. Berklan in this McKnight’s Newsmakers podcast.

At the heart of it all is a philosophy of how to best deal with people — residents, families, the company’s 6,000-plus employees and others, Bloom says. The special Tutera Younite approach is the anchor.

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In this episode of the Reimagining Senior Living and Long-Term Care series, Jim sits down with Allison Rainey, Head of Nursing and Clinical Informatics at MatrixCare, and Daniel Zhu, Vice President, Product Management at MatrixCare, to explore the concept of collaborative intelligence in modern care planning. Together, they dive into how the integration of human expertise with AI-powered insights is reshaping the care planning process—helping care teams make faster, more informed decisions while still honoring the clinical judgment and personalized touch that residents deserve. From surfacing relevant goals to reducing variability across shifts, this conversation highlights how technology is not replacing the human element but enhancing it to elevate both efficiency and outcomes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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William Dombi has been too busy working on home care advocacy to relax during his retirement from the National Alliance for Care at Home, he told McKnight’s Home Care in a Newsmakers podcast. Besides working for the law firm Arnall Golden Gregory, he is the board of advisers for New Day Healthcare. With the federal administration honing in on fraud, waste and abuse, Medicaid and hospice are in the crosshairs. The field has been in such a predicament before. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 brought about a new payment model for home health. Then the Affordable Care Act resulted in the rebasing of home health payment rates, which hurt the industry. Hospice could see a similar rebasing of rates. The new generation of hospice also could see the introduction of Medicare Advantage to hospice. And there may be an expansion of palliative care as well. While there are concerns, there are opportunities in home care as well. There needs to be more education to teach home care about getting involved with hospital-at-home programs and other innovative approaches to care, he said.

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When you’ve worked from the statehouse to the governor’s mansion, to AARP’s executive offices to long-term care association leadership, one builds a rich reservoir of workplace wisdom.

Joseph DeMattos Jr. is out to share insights he’s gained during a rich, decades-long career to help raise long-term care providers experiences and fortunes. In this special McKnight’s Newsmaker podcast, the former Healthcare Facilities of Maryland top executive gives his four keys to LTC success and offers ways that everyone from a nurse aide to CEO can improve their career arc.

The CEO of DeMattos Strategic Advisory and Triple Latte Leadership LLC, escribes how providers can take control — and what they should try to take control of — even amid this era of historic disruption.

He offers listeners insight on marketplace shifts and what the fragmentation of the sector means for frontliners, managers and top execs. Investing time and effort, and engaging in the right areas are critical, he explains.

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One Senior Care, based in Erie, PA, serves seniors in Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and soon-to-be northeastern Ohio. Because its population base is rural, one of the unique services One Senior Care provides is driving to seniors’ homes and transporting them to PACE services, Chief Operating Officer Craig Worland said. One Senior Care’s promise is to do what it can to let seniors stay in their homes and communities. PACE is a bipartisan issue, Worland believes. Republicans and Democrats as well as bureaucrats have a favorable view of PACE. With the restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services, oversight of PACE likely will move to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). Worland is not so concerned about where PACE is housed, but he wants the government to be aware that PACE is “not an experiment.” Barriers — particularly enrollment ones — need to be removed to grow the program, he said. PACE organizations, as opposed to states, should control eligibility to cut down on red tape and facilitate easier enrollment into the program, he said. He’d like to see every state offer PACE in coming years.

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Gene Hackman’s death offers a vivid example of the choices older adults and their family caregivers need to consider such as where to live and how to develop a network of support, Andrea Cohen, board chair of the Caregiver Action Network and founder of HouseWorks, said. Home care can play a role in these conversations, Anne Tumlinson, founder and CEO of ATI Advisory and founder of the family caregiver group Daughterhood, said. Home care must treat family caregivers as one of their key stakeholders, along with the client and employee, Cohen said. When she started HouseWorks, a personal care company, family caregivers were invisible. No longer. Family caregiver training is much better than it used to be. Public policy also has shifted so that, through the new GUIDE Model, Medicare now recognizes the important role that family caregivers of loved ones with dementia face, Tumlinson said. Going forward, home care companies need to be strategic and provide a range of services, such as home modifications, for their clients. Tumlinson agreed. The most successful home-based care models are interdisciplinary and scalable, she said. And they must be data-driven, Cohen added. Providing for family caregivers is essential. Taking care of them helps to solve problems for the hospital and healthcare plan and other parts of the healthcare system.

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