Healthpeak continues exit of ‘volatile’ senior housing market with $4B in sales, moves headquarters
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 04, 2020
Although not the reason behind Healthpeak Properties’ planned exit of its senior housing operating and triple-net lease portfolio businesses, COVID-19 certainly served as a catalyst for a full exit,...
Confluence of COVID-19, winter storms led to ‘historic, unique’ quarter: Pennant Group
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 10, 2021
The confluence of COVID-19 cases peaking in January across the country and a severe winter storm in Texas during the first quarter had a noticeable effect on The Pennant Group’s senior living segment....
Investment in people yields success in senior living: NIC panelists
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 08, 2020
COVID-19 is exhausting. That was the consensus of speakers focusing on issues related to the senior living workforce during the 2020 National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference,...
Staffing, cost of care, living conditions top bones of contention for prospective AL residents and operators,...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 18, 2023
As a wave of baby boomers continues to shape the senior living landscape, a new white paper looks at top concerns those prospective residents are raising in evaluating their options, and provides best...
Innovation will attract the next-generation consumer to senior living, speakers say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 26, 2023
CHICAGO — The baby boomers will change the senior living industry dramatically and already are pushing it to a point of reckoning, according to a panel of experts discussing the next generation of 55-plus...
COVID-19 driving technology adoption across senior living: Ziegler
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 18, 2020
The pandemic has cast a long shadow over the senior living and care sector. But it also is being credited as a catalyst for technology adoption and spending, as well as healthcare innovation.
Sniffing out COVID: Service dogs take on new role in Georgia assisted living communities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 14, 2021
A Georgia-based senior living operator is partnering with a nonprofit service dog trainer to staff its metro Atlanta-based assisted living communities with COVID-sniffing canines.
Vaccination, booster shots remain top strategy in protecting long-term care residents, workers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 18, 2021
COVID-19 is not done with us. LeadingAge Senior Vice President of Policy Ruth Katz opened Wednesday’s membership update call with news that several states are seeing increasing coronavirus cases. Connecticut,...
Increase vaccination uptake with focus on ‘movable middle’: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 10, 2021
Senior living operators looking to increase staff COVID-19 vaccine uptake should focus their efforts on the “movable middle” by making vaccination easy, building trust in vaccine safety and offering...
Artificial intelligence, MRI combination achieves 94% accuracy in predicting dementia
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 09, 2021
A form of artificial intelligence combined with MRI scans of the brain predicted with 94% accuracy whether individuals with a specific type of early memory loss would go on to develop Alzheimer’s diseases...