Consumer Guide to ArbitrationLearn about Arbitration and how it affects residents and communities. (Published 12/2009).FREE/Assisted Living Federation of America Members and Nonmembers Download the Consumer Guide The 2009 Largest Assisted Living ProvidersAssisted Living Executive, the award-winning magazine of the Assisted Living Federation of America, has released its much-anticipated annual list of the Largest Providers in the assisted living business. The list features the industry's Top 70 Largest Providers - giving readers and industry watchers a broad view of the competitive assisted living landscape. The list and accompanying story appear in the March/April issue of the magazine.FREE/Assisted Living Federation of America Members and Nonmembers Download Tool Kit The Employee Free Choice Act Inoculation Guide and Tool Kit
Senior living providers nationwide now have access to a must-have resource for preparing for the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) if passed by Congress and signed by President Obama. This resource will help protect employees from potentially coercive or intimidating situations. The new EFCA 2009 Inoculation Took Kit includes an easy to use guide to the proposed legislation so that providers can start preparing now to protect their communities, residents and employees form the negative consequences of EFCA. The kit includes a summary of EFCA and how it changes union organizing, training materials for team members, vulnerability checklists, tip sheets and much more. The Role of Long-Term-Care Insurance in Assisted LivingA complete package with everything you need — PowerPoint presentations, fact sheets and templates for invitations, flyers and press releases — to provide informational seminars to families and friends of residents on the role long-term care insurance plays in helping to finance assisted living. Front-line Caregiver Retention GuideThis tool kit provides information to help assisted living communities reduce turnover and ensure the best and most reliable care for residents. It provides a blueprint of practical steps, ideas, and examples to develop an A+ program. The tool kit includes in-depth examination of such human resource issues as orientation and culture adoption, salaries, benefits, health insurance, retirement, wellness programs, child care and adoption benefits, flextime and job sharing, and awards and incentives. The kit also discusses training, professional development and mentoring, uses of surveys and technology, and a list of resources for more information on retention-related strategies. FREE/Assisted Living Federation of America Members; Download Tool Kit; $99/Nonmembers. Purchase Now Media Relations Guide and Tool KitThe new ALFA Media Relations Guide & Tool Kit starts with strategies for tapping media outlets and newsfeeds and ends with valuable templates for hosting TV events, writing letters to the editor or op-ed articles, and releasing written statements on various topics. The tool kit also addresses strategies for crisis communications and working with outside communications and public relations professionals.
FREE/Assisted Living Federation of America Members; Download Tool Kit; $99/Nonmembers. Purchase Now
ALFA Grassroots Advocacy Guide and Tool Kit
The new ALFA Grassroots Advocacy Guide & Tool Kit delivers critical information for assisted living supporters and activists at the local, state, and federal levels. Content is easy to read and communicate to others and includes information such as: why providers are critical to the advocacy process; strategies for effectively organizing meetings; tips for developing relevant talking points; strategies for engaging family members; and contact information for legislators. Labor UnionsA three-year industry-wide action plan developed in 2006 to respond to SEIU efforts to undermine the assisted living industry and drive a wedge between our residents and their caregivers. Also includes tools to address organizing campaigns. Veterans Affairs Aid & Attendance ProgramThis tool kit covers the application process for the Veterans' Aid & Attendance Benefit and addresses a specific benefit for veterans and surviving spouses who currently live in an assisted living community or are considering a move to an assisted living community. These veterans and spouses may be eligible for Aid and Attendance Benefits when they need assistance with activities of daily living(ADLs). The tool kit discusses the benefit amounts and eligibility requirements, and includes a list of documentation needed by veterans and an instructional guide for completing the application. Hospice Services for Assisted Living ResidentsThis tool kit, which was developed in partnership with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), includes three sections with information for assisted living providers, hospice providers, and consumers. The first section, About Assisted Living, is a guide for hospice providers who are interested in becoming more familiar with the assisted living industry, types of communities, resident profiles, health profiles, average monthly rates, and more. The second section, Living With Dignity, is a consumer's guide to assisted living and end-of-life planning. The third section, About Hospice, provides provides a guide for providers interested in learning more about hospice care. Disaster PlanningThe tool kit includes in-depth discussions of advance evacuation planning, evacuating, re-opening a community after an evacuation, sheltering in place, and various types of disasters, and how responses should differ. It also includes valuable checklists for counting down to a hurricane, evacuation supplies, medical and clnical supplies, food and wter, and room sealing. Information about safe food temperatures, communications options, managing stressed staff and residents, and forming staff readiness teams is also included, along with sample forms and policies. |
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