The latest issue of Workforce Matters has several great articles. They include
- LeadingAge Ohio Launches “Careers that Love You Back”: LeadingAge Ohio has created “Careers that Love You Back,” a statewide poster campaign for providers and teachers to introduce students to jobs across the range of older adult services — from affordable housing to hospice.
- LeadingAge Partners with PayActiv to Allow Staff Access to Earned Wages: Financial stress is one of the key reasons our workers “drop-out” of the caregiver population. According to the latest Bankrate study, 6 in 10 Americans do not have even $500 in savings.
- Two Key Journals Feature LTSS Center’s Work on Home Care: Robyn Stone, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, and Natasha Bryant, the LTSS Center’s managing director/senior research associate, wrote one article and served as co-authors on two others on the opportunities and challenges in the home care workforce. Members working in the home care area will find the results helpful.
- Promising Practice: Proactive Culture Change – In 2012, the Indiana-based Byron Health Center culture was focused more on discipline than on a positive environment for residents – and staff. Employees didn’t have fun at the community – or realize where they worked was the residents’ home.
