The right furniture is essential to create a welcoming environment that residents will find attractive, comfortable and therapeutic.
Binge drinking puts 10% of older adults at greater risk of falls, other health issues
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 01, 2019
New research may have senior living operators proceeding more carefully with offerings such as in-community bars and happy hours.
Ventas: ‘Optimism remains’ about senior housing
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 29, 2019
Ventas executives said Friday that they have high expectations for performance in the real estate investment trust’s U.S. senior living portfolio over the next five years, although they don’t expect...
Providers should be ‘actively involved’ as some Medicare beneficiaries begin receiving nonmedical...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 26, 2019
Two reports issued Thursday focus on ways the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can offer nonmedical supplemental benefits to chronically ill enrollees.
Meet Tabassum Majid, Rising Star honoree
By
Mallory Hackett
Jul 26, 2019
Tabassum Majid, Ph.D., executive director of the Integrace Institute, is in the 2019 class of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction as a Rising Star.
128 charges against 3 highlight importance of licensed assisted living facilities, ombudsman says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 25, 2019
Three Maryland residents face a collective 128 charges of abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult, financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, embezzlement, theft, fraud and operating a combined total...
How automation saves one provider time and money
By
Christina Robbins
Jul 25, 2019
The Prestige Care story offers several key ideas that can help any senior living community looking to improve through technology.
Labor Department tells senior living operator that sales employees are nonexempt, deserve back wages
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 23, 2019
The operator of a Tennessee senior living community agreed to pay $81,008 in back wages and liquidated damages after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division said the community’s sales...
People in the news, July 23
By
Mallory Hackett
Jul 23, 2019
Appointments and promotions at the Asbury Foundation, Erickson Living, The Glen at Scripps Ranch, Indiana University Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute, Kindred at Home, Leisure Care,...
Top 5 characteristics of the best general contractors
By
Robert Reeves
Jul 22, 2019
Your project lies in the hands of your contractor. Choose the wrong one and you can be left with a host of problems before construction even begins.