Senior living must build careers, not fill vacancies | Opinion

Recently, Leigh Anna Compton spoke to Newsweek about something on our minds here at Still Hopes. With the influx of the Baby Boomer generation, conversations nationally have begun naming the care worker gap we are about to experience. That is a huge obstacle we all as a field must overcome, yes. However, who's community runs on care workers alone?

We need people across all business functions, from accounting, to trades, to hospitality, yet senior living remains largely invisible to future professionals. We have to address our own visibility problem while showing those who already work with us that they can build their careers in senior living. Buildings without people serve no one.

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