Digital Publications and Toolkits

In this issue, we share information and resources related to recognizing types of elder abuse; pre-employment screening; training; elder abuse reporting, investigating, and enforcement; and abuse pre-determinates and coping strategies.

A study of senior living by Tripp Umbach, one of the world’s leading research firms on economic impact, shows our industry has an outsize reach—it’s not just a contributor but a driver of economies, and one that outranks the impact of the auto manufacturing, air transportation, and hotel and motel industries. In this issue of Argtentum Quarterly, see the national and state impact data and learn how you can best use it.

From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, while doing all the minute-by-minute work it demands, leaders also have been identifying what’s temporary, what’s a signal of future changes, and what endures. To move toward clarity, in this Argentum Quarterly we’ve collected insights, information, and recent thinking—what experts say and data indicate—to form a composite profile of the new senior living worker, what they want, what they need, and how to hire and lead them. Plus: Data, strategies, and implementation examples of skills transferability—an emerging essential. Sponsored by OnShift

In this issue of Argentum Quarterly, we look at the ever-present topic of emergency preparedness with a focus on natural disasters. Taking care of a frail population requires special planning and perseverance on every level and in every department of a senior living company. It also takes excellent coordination at the local, state, and possibly federal level.

With drivers including the shift to value-based care and increased flexibility in services, many providers are looking toward alternative revenue streams such as Medicare Advantage and partnerships. In this issue of Argentum Quarterly, health intelligence firm Leavitt Partners presents a situational analysis that can help in shaping your move. It examines value, timelines, risk, regulatory context, and more for six different types of streams—including the still-dominant fee-for-service model. Data and focus on factors unique to senior living make for a concise overview useful to providers of any regions or scale.

Understanding and managing changing cybersecurity risks in the COVID-19 era and beyond Reliance on technology in the senior living industry is progressing fast—and the COVID-19 pandemic further spurred this. Increased communication, EHRs, and telemedicine are invaluable to the mission of safety and quality care. But they can also leave sensitive information vulnerable—as some have experienced first-hand, through cyberattacks, human error, or fraud. What are the risks, now and ahead, how can we manage them, and how can we prepare our workforce? A range of experts address staying safe, lessons learned, and evolving trends to watch for. Sponsored by Willis Towers Watson

This issue of Argentum Quarterly is designed to give you a better understanding of the senior living workforce landscape and to spur new ways of cultivating and retaining workers for jobs in health care—jobs projected to grow more than any other occupational group over the next eight years and beyond—that have the timeless mission of caring for special populations. In this issue you'll see details on: getting to 2025 and state workforce projections; proven solutions for finding and growing a talent pipeline; what to expect at the state and regional level in 2019; and a review of jobs, hours, and wages in Q3 of 2018.

Employee turnover is the defining challenge facing senior living. Consider: As Argentum published last year, we need to fill 1.4 million positions through 2025. Of those, more than 1 million represent the workers in senior living we will lose. This issue of Argentum Quarterly presents some solutions: Data from Activated Insights, Great Place to Work’s senior care team, reveal factors behind an employee’s decision to stay at a job. Civitas Senior Living outlines how the company used data to get a healthier retention rate. Plus: Insights on effective survey design from OnShift.

Who are the older adults of America? How numerous are they, and how is their population projected to grow? Will those of the next decade be different from those today—in diversity, in financial situations, in need? To answer these questions and more, Argentum pulls together data and insights from multiple sources and perspectives to present a vision of who senior living needs to serve, today and tomorrow. Sponsored by Legacy Healthcare Services

The Assisted Living Community Executive Director Primer provides senior living executive directors information on how to be more effective by augmenting skills and knowledge in various domains of study critical to performance excellence. The resource was developed by a panel of subject matter experts (SMEs) in the management of assisted living communities, and is further validated by a larger pool of executive directors from across the country. © September 2017.