Anthem making ‘good progress’ on challenges, LTC CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 10, 2017
Anthem Memory Care is making “good progress” addressing financial, occupancy and staffing issues previously identified by LTC Properties, the healthcare real estate investment trust’s...
Americans not prepared for Alzheimer’s: poll
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 07, 2017
More than half of respondents to a recent poll about Alzheimer’s disease greatly underestimated the costs of long-term care.
2 former caregivers to be sentenced for felonies in resident’s hypothermia death
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 13, 2017
Two former caregivers at a Michigan assisted living and memory care community are scheduled to be sentenced next month after entering pleas to felony charges in a case involving a resident with dementia...
Kim Campbell is on a memory care mission
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 02, 2017
Three years after Glen Campbell received his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, his wife, Kim, didn’t know that memory care communities existed. Now she’s on a mission to ensure that other family...
Designing for dementia
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 25, 2017
An app that was under development when we first told you about it in June is now available to help make living environments more friendly for those with dementia.
Researchers use virtual reality to help develop dementia test
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 05, 2017
Scientists are asking the players of virtual reality games to play a free game to help them better understand dementia, with the goal of developing a diagnostic test. A mobile version is available, too.
Fidget spinners show promise in addressing dementia symptoms
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 13, 2017
An Ohio senior living community is finding that fidget spinners and cubes seem to produce a calming effect in those with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Stand-alone memory care properties challenge LTC Properties in second quarter
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 10, 2017
LTC Properties has issued a default notice to the primary operator of stand-alone memory care communities in its portfolio and is planning to transition two properties away from the other operator of stand-alone...
Glen Campbell remembered; documentary to air Wednesday
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 08, 2017
Wednesday, HLN will broadcast an encore presentation of “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me,” the network announced hours after Campbell’s death on Tuesday. The documentary has a special...
REIT investments suggest a healthy future for senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 31, 2017
Back-to-back earnings calls Friday morning suggested a healthy future for senior living operators, as two large public healthcare real estate investment trusts relayed the growing place that senior living...