By targeting your design strategy on areas in your facility that are sure to make a difference, you can make some big improvements to your property—without breaking the bank. Read More »
As the focus on baby boomers entering the senior living housing market becomes more prominent in the United States, an odd phenomenon is occurring—new developers don't understand what needs to be in a facility. Read More »
Community integration and engagement is the new design mantra for senior housing. Senior communities will be inclusive living environments, instead of islands of exclusivity. Read More »
In 4Q11, nursing care occupancy was 88.2 percent, a decline of 0.1 percent from the prior quarter and a 0.2 percent decline from one year ago, according to the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry. Read More »
Aromatherapy and its sensory effects on human emotion, productivity when used in the indoor environments of healthcare facilities. There are many reasons to consider the incorporation of scenting into any environment. Read More »
We don’t know as much about how infections start within the senior living environment as in acute care settings. But the essentials of infection transfer remain the same. Read More »
While the supply across the largest 31 metropolitan markets has declined, there are exceptions at the metropolitan market level. In the past year, 10 of the largest 31 metropolitan markets had increases in the nursing care bed supply. Read More »
Beyond verbal communication, I wondered how else we may be devaluing our team members who work so closely with residents. Consider these questions about the design of your environments—and the messages they send to employees. Read More »
The report, which offers a global overview of the senior living industry, found that baby boomers prefer unconventional senior housing, which developers have been creating at an increased rate. Read More »
New data on residential care facilities provide baseline estimates for the future. Researchers say this information will come in handy when policymakers and consumer advocates engage in discourse over the industry. Read More »
Editor's note: Last month, Long-Term Living readers were treated to five of Richard Peck's predictions for the industry in the coming years Read More »
On May 22, an EF-5 tornado carved its way through Joplin, Mo., striking the Greenbriar nursing home with a direct hit. Months later, the affected share their stories. Read More »
Photo by St. Leonard staff The Franciscan Wellness Center fitness room at St. Leonard Franciscan Living Community in Centerville, Ohio A community Read More »
Other than growing old, it’s not easy to do anything for 30 consecutive years—and do it successfully. Well, on December 5, one of assisted living’s Read More »
My adjustable home care bed was put in storage 15 years ago, when I first moved into a nursing home. I then had to sleep in one of the facility’s Read More »
In many senior care facilities across the country, Alzheimer's treatment is finally taking a more common sense approach: effectively caring for the Read More »
*Editor's note: Jennifer Kovacs Silvis is Managing Editor of HEALTHCARE DESIGN and Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Building Ideas, both sister Read More »
Interest in and attention to the design and architecture of today’s healing environments has exploded over the past decade, as evidenced by the rapid Read More »
As an architect and designer, I am encouraged to gather input from clients as we begin the planning and design process. In the senior living world, Read More »
Kelley Hoffman While I was a student in design school, my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and my family needed to choose a Read More »
Rachelle DeGeorge For a typical new construction or renovation project the owner of a senior living community is responsible for bringing together Read More »
The warnings have been well reported up to this point. Unfortunately, providers have little say in the matters of Medicaid and the transformations Read More »
The recovery in assisted living is keeping pace as occupancy continues to improve. In 3Q11, assisted living occupancy was 88.6 percent, which is an Read More »
Rendering by Rees Associates, Inc. The first Prevarian Senior Living community, Wyoming Springs Assisted Living and Memory Care in Round Rock, Read More »
Within the largest 30 metropolitan markets (Las Vegas excluded), the number of units in assisted living properties has increased by 7.7 percent Read More »
Allan R. Brown, Jr., is co-founder and principal of Prevarian Senior Living, a relatively new real estate development and investment firm based in Read More »
Daniel Pink, in his opening keynote address at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living’s 62nd Annual Convention & Read More »
In complex mysteries you may have more than one party that is responsible for missing rooms in a senior living community. The worst crime scene I Read More »
