I. FOLLOWING THE NARRATIVE: A quick summary of national media trends last week.
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Infrastructure coverage continues, as negotiations on the details of potential bipartisan legislation are hammered out with a goal to get a deal to the Senate this summer. The end of the CDC eviction moratorium increases interest in the need for affordable housing. Finally, vaccine uptake in aging services and workforce shortages in long-term care remain a major focus — the latter fueled interest in the LTSS Center@UMass Boston’s Feeling Valued Because They Are Valued workforce vision, released July 1st.
Infrastructure:
- Washington Post: Opinion: Home health care belongs in the infrastructure package. We all pay for it anyway
- *NPR: With Workers In Short Supply, Seniors Often Wait Months For Home Health Care
- NBC: Biden’s pledge to boost home caregiver funding excluded from infrastructure deal
- *Modern Healthcare, Democrats propose $400 Billion Medicaid boost for Home Care
- NBC News: ‘Housing is infrastructure’: Marcia Fudge’s vision for a HUD that serves the people
- The Washington Post: ‘Five-alarm fire’: Slow trickle of rental aid heightens concern about eviction crisis
- CalMatters: Inside one city’s multimillion-dollar effort to convert motels into affordable housing
- The Fayetteville Observer: Fayetteville adopted an affordable housing study. What’s the city’s plan to implement it?
- ABC 11: Demand for broadband grows as Washington negotiators hash out infrastructure package
Workforce and vaccines:
- *CNN: Covid-19 exposed the devastating consequences of staff shortages in nursing homes. But the problem isn’t new,
- *McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Implementing strategies that promote true value of direct care workers will improve LTSS workforce challenges: report
- *Skilled Nursing News: Better training, Career Paths Key to Rebuilding Nursing Home Workforce
- *Home Health Care News: 6 Ways to Combat the Workforce Crisis in Home-Based Care
- Forbes: Confronting the Growing Shortage of Care Workers For Older Adults
- McKnight’s Senior Living: Long-term care facilities face critical nursing shortage
- Home Health Care News: Younger Workers May Be More Inclined to Go into Home-Based Care
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News:Nurse turnover rises less than expected while wages jumped significantly at CCRCs in 2021: survey
- *Skilled Nursing News:With Influx of Cash and Market Competition, Skilled Nursing Leadership Should Invest in Talent for the Long Haul
- *The Philadelphia Inquirer: Senior nursing facility organizations wanted 75% of staff vaccinated by June 30. They’re still far from their goal
- Chicago Sun Times: Make the COVID vaccine mandatory for workers in nursing homes
II. Other Clips that Influenced the Week: LeadingAge is a sought-out, reliable source for multiple trade and national media outlets (see that coverage posted in our LeadingAge Press Room). Other key clips that shaped the narrative last week:
- *Skilled Nursing News: Updated PRF Guidelines, Portal Available for Providers
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: First federal rulings expected in COVID wrongful death suits against nursing homes
- *McKnight’s Senior Living: Senior living makes case for OSHA to delay new COVID-19-related standards
- *McKnight’s Senior Living: 49 percent of assisted living providers operating at a loss: survey
- *Hospice News:Hospices Gear Up for Overhauled CMS Survey Process
- *PoliticsNY: New Suozzi Legislation Addresses Financing of Long-Term Care for the Elderly
- Forbes:Where Long Term Care Reform Goes Now
- Forbes: Jumpstarting the Debate Over Public Long-Term Care Insurance
- *Home Health Care News:New Legislation Seeks to Help Seniors Pay for Long-Term Care
III. What’s On Our Radar–this week’s likely priorities
- July 13 Care is Essential rally, D.C. and cities nationwide
- July 15 National Call-In Day for Affordable Housing
IV. National Statements & Products (all posted on the Press Room page)
- LeadingAge Statement on the Well-Being Insurance for Seniors to be at Home (WISH) Act
- LeadingAge Releases Long-Range Vision To Build the Direct Caregiving Workforce Our Nation Needs
- The Time is Now: Majority of Americans Say Government Should Prioritize Older Adults
V. State Resources Rundown: State Association COVID Media Materials: A folder of helpful resources, sample op eds, fact sheets, and more.
- Placed Op Eds: Add yours!
- Public Opinion Poll: U.S. Attitudes About Investing in Older Adults
- Workforce vision paper: Feeling Valued Because They Are Valued