LeadingAge Minnesota has recently completed an update of our environmental scan, which tracks key trends and issues across various categories, including demographics, workforce, payment and consumer preferences. The scan is an excellent tool for strategic planning discussions with boards and other key leaders, and the recent updates reflect some of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and questions it raises for the future of long-term care.

We have divided the scan PowerPoint deck into sections by topic. Each section ends with a considerations slide with key takeaways that you can use to frame a discussion on the issue. Because we are making it available as a PowerPoint, it is easy for members to customize a presentation by removing slides to focus on a few key topic areas. We plan to update the presentation continually, so whenever you go to the environmental scan page, you will access the most recent data we have available.