The LTSS Center Blog is the place where our researchers share their insights about the latest trends in the field of long-term services and supports, and offer updates about the research they’re conducting.
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Experience Motivates Caregivers to Plan For Their Future Care Needs
A 2023 study explored how the caregiving experience motivates family caregivers to start planning for their future care needs.
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How Can We Improve the Lives of People Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment?
A national team of researchers is studying ways to support older people living alone with cognitive impairment. Housing providers can help, writes Robyn Stone.
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A Resource to Help You Add Refugees to Your Team
A new LeadingAge resource can help you recruit refugees and asylum-seekers to work as professional caregivers in your organization.
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Guiding Caregivers Along the Path to Happiness
Enabling team members to pursue their happiness might be the key to solving our workforce crisis, write Jenna Kellerman and Robyn Stone.
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5 Reasons to Applaud a Housing-Based Training Program
Robyn Stone is counting the reasons she’s delighted about a new project to strengthen the affordable senior housing workforce.
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Immigration Policies Must be Ethical and Equitable
Immigration policies can help address the global workforce crisis, writes Robyn Stone. But those policies must benefit all nations, not just wealthy nations.
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Leadership Training: It’s Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves
Academic institutions can play a critical role in training future leaders in the field of aging services. But providers must help, writes Robyn Stone.
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The Power of PACE: Revitalizing an Urban Neighborhood
Providers of aging services have the power to change the lives of older adults and revitalize their communities, writes Robyn Stone.
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Relationships Matter in Nursing Home Care
Relationship-based care is more important—and harder to achieve—than you think, writes Robyn Stone, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston.
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Bringing the Next Generation into Aging Services
Careers in Aging Week 2023 offers a chance to reflect on your career in aging and show the next generation the power behind that career.