07/30/2025
The Trump administration’s crackdown is straining the long-term care workforce, threatening access to essential services for older adults.
Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of LeadingAge, warns: “The services just won’t be available for people when they need them because we won’t be able to staff them.”
The administration’s policies are forcing LeadingAge’s nonprofit members to let go of valued staff due to the end of the humanitarian parole and temporary protected status ( ) programs–vital legal pathways that allowed these workers to live and work–legally–in the U.S.
Sinai Residences in Florida has had to terminate 10 caregivers and CEO Rachel Blumberg says she expects to lose 28 more–nearly 9% of her workforce. In Boston, The Laurel Ridge Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center executive director Colin O’Leary anticipates losing up to 10% of staff, many of whom are Haitian workers with legal TPS protection.
Read the full story in The New York Times, by Madeleine Ngo: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/politics/immigration-senior-caregivers.html
