Senior living executives at Senior Living 100 shared ideas on new approaches to acuity adaptable spaces, models for differentiated care in assisted living and memory care, and innovative ways to appeal to consumers’ changing lifestyles and affinities. Read More »
A hotel company CEO offers senior living executives tips for success based on building a culture that empowers staff and satisfies customers’ unrecognized needs. “Dare to be different,” he says. Read More »
ALFA’s annual list of the top 80 largest senior living providers reflects REIT-based acquisitions, higher absorption, major management deals and reduced construction activity. Read More »
Willis North America’s Senior Living Practice Group will work with ALFA members to reduce costs, improve their operating risk profiles and better meet their employee benefit and insurance objectives. Read More »
The seniors housing average occupancy rate has risen in seven consecutive quarters and is 1.1 percentage points above its cyclical low of 87.1 percent in 1Q10, according to NIC MAP. Read More »
An internship program is a great way to find qualified staff, raise resident morale, generate new ideas and give back to the community by helping college students. The key is fostering positive relationships with local colleges. Read More »
Find qualified staff, raise resident morale, generate new ideas, market your community relations, save money—it's a no-brainer, really. Just ask yourself: "Can we start an internship program of our own?" 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 »
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 »
Boutique hotels…boutique shops…boutique spas…boutique senior living…. What? Boutique senior living? That's correct! The arrival of America's most Read More »
Located in Thousand Oaks, California, in scenic Ventura County, University Village Thousand Oaks (UVTO) is nestled on a 65-acre natural riparian Read More »
If it is possible for long-term care operators to forecast an economic storm, the management at Carol Woods Retirement Community might as well be Read More »
What happens when you get teams from 10 architectural firms clustered in one large room attempting to design four inner city senior housing Read More »
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He is as ubiquitous at long-term care (LTC) conferences as anyone, and yet he is not a provider or management consultant. He is not a “techie,” but Read More »
In terms of aging, everyone is touting 60 as “the new 50”; thus, 70 is the new 60, and so on. Clearly, this is evident everywhere—in the workforce Read More »
To demonstrate the feasibility of creating an urban high-rise culture change program, and to encourage the elder care community to consider this Read More »
It was a wide-ranging discussion at the Environments for Aging Conference in March—a couple dozen architects, planners, senior service providers, Read More »
At first glance you wouldn't take the building to be: (1) a senior living community or (2) an exemplar of “green” construction. The building, a Read More »
Perhaps the most distinctive among the alternative environments to accommodate aging is the model known as senior cohousing. Unlike the famous Read More »
As continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) strive to incorporate whole-person wellness programs into their campus cultures, a recent national Read More »
