Already faced with the prospect of absorbing $127 billion in Medicare funding reductions through 2021, the long-term care industry may find itself confronted with even more strife in the year ahead. Read More »
Job’s Way is Kirby Pines Retirement Community's award-winning Alzheimer’s and dementia residence—winner of more than six national and international awards. The unique circular facility is designed to minimize confusion and frustration as residents move about during their daily activities. Read More »
Although this seems to be a quirky and light-hearted story, there are business and resident safety consequences associated with Santa Monica’s decision to ticket the Sunrise Senior Living van out of sight. Read More »
The former CEO of a North Carolina-based chain of assisted living facilities operated by Caremerica Inc., pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service out of millions in employment taxes. Read More »
Providers contend final rule will shorten the time employees may learn about union membership before an election, grant the NLRB latitude to decide election issues and limit an employer’s ability to appeal initial election hearing findings. 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 »
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 »
Nurses in today's LTC and assisted living settings act in a variety of roles, both clinical and nonclinical. Nurses assist with or administer 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 »
Amid lackluster second quarter economic data and increasing uncertainty about future economic growth, assisted living fundamentals remained Read More »
Labor is a provider's largest expense, and one that historically has not been managed as well as it could and should be.For many providers, Read More »
For the upcoming July 2011 issue of Long-Term Living, we asked three well known senior living designers to debate the pros and cons of various Read More »
Many assisted living facilities are experiencing higher vacancies since the economy and the housing market crashed in 2008. Long considered a Read More »
It's not every day you can lock down three of the field's most intriguing and expert sources on aging environments and design to debate best Read More »
For the upcoming July 2011 issue of Long-Term Living, we asked three well known senior living designers to debate the pros and cons of various Read More »
The Design Challenge: To position an aging Austin, Tex., retirement community to capture the growing independent living market, while enabling best Read More »
At its annual Conference & Expo, the Assisted Living Federation of America spares no expense in honoring some of the hardest workers in senior Read More »
Design tends to be evolutionary, not revolutionary. Progress is typically made in incremental steps, tweaking what “is” to change what “will be.” Read More »
As we are abundantly aware, our society routinely associates sex with youth, beauty, wellness, and vitality. Recent research findings as well as Read More »
Elders on a safari? Yes, 10 elders from Pine Grove Nursing Home, affiliated with Pinecrest Medical Center, Powers, Michigan, are on a safari. Read More »
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Aid and Attendance pensions are non-service-connected pensions, which are for veterans whose disability or Read More »
*Editor’s note: Doug Fullaway, president and COO of Vigilan, provides part two of his analysis on staffing methods in assisted living. Click here to Read More »
Glass gives great views and the feeling of being outside is carried through the interior with cedar, slate, and bluestone Flying into Boston's Read More »
At a glance… A tip for assisted living providers: Incremental profit works. It just takes a different approach to billing, and that's where Read More »
At the core of any assisted living community is service delivery. Delivering services means providers need people—enough to do a good job, but not Read More »
Nestled on 88 New England-picturesque acres in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is an enclave of apartments, cottages, gardens, and townhomes designed by Read More »
