Direct Care Workers in the United States: Key Facts
This report from PHIprovides a new annual snapshot on the direct care workforce, including its demographics, occupational roles, job quality challenges, and projected job openings....
Keep Your Brand New Staff Beyond the Typical Turnover Time by Focusing on Onboarding
Our Onboarding Toolkit provides information, tools and excellent examples for developing a culture of onboarding that welcomes new staff, adequately trains them and helps prevent...
PHI Releases New Federal Priorities Report on Direct Care Workforce
The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the essential value of direct care workers, and a new presidential administration offers a critical window of opportunity to...
5 Surefire New Supervisor Tips for Success
You promoted a superstar employee to a supervisory role. She now manages the people who were once her peers, and while she exhibits strong leadership...
Deadline Approaching: Apply to the National LeadingAge Leadership Academy
Now more than ever, the field of aging services needs reflective and forward-thinking leaders. That’s why the LeadingAge Leadership Academy exists—to give new, aspiring,...
Feeling Valued Because They Are Valued: A Vision for Direct Care Professionals
Professional caregivers—including nursing assistants, personal care aides, and home health aides—have always played an important role in the field of long-term services and supports...
Updated Recruitment Tools Available
LeadingAge, along with help from some state affiliates, has updated tools and resources to help you gain an edge in recruiting new employees. Visit the...
The ROI of Workforce Development
This new article by Dr. Robyn Stone, Senior VP of Research at LeadingAge, and co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. This article...
Strengthening the Direct Care Workforce
Last week, LeadingAge’s Senior Vice President of Research, Robyn Stone, joined Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy and other panelists for a webinar on...
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021
On January 20, 2021, President Biden announced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, and Sen. Bob Mendez (D-NJ) and Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) introduced...
NAAP Diversity Advancement Scholarship
The NAAP Diversity Advancement Scholarship was developed to create interest and awareness in the field of Therapeutic Activity services with people of color and...
LeadingAge Kansas Foundation Scholarship: Share the Opportunity
It’s scholarship time and we need your help to promote the 2021 LeadingAge Kansas Foundation Scholarship in your organization. This unique program provides scholarships...