5 insights from NIC’s Middle Market Investor Summit
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 22, 2019
Several panelists shared insights about current and potential efforts to meet middle-income older adults’ senior housing and care needs on Tuesday at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing...
Ensign says ‘it’s the right time’ to spin off senior living, home health and hospice businesses
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 08, 2019
With favorable market conditions, the infrastructure in place and a prepared organization and leadership, the time was right to spin off Ensign’s home health and hospice agencies, along with most of...
54 percent of middle-income seniors could need housing, care help by 2029, NIC-funded study finds
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 24, 2019
Fifty-four percent of the 14.4 million middle-income older adults in 2029 in the United States will lack the financial resources to pay for senior housing and care, and a combination of public and private...
Florida assisted living communities challenged by staffing, Medicaid, study confirms
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 16, 2019
Staffing and Medicaid reimbursement were two pressing issues for operators that emerged from a recent survey commissioned by the Florida Assisted Living Association, the organization’s CEO, Shaddrick...
Provider tests technology to help residents reduce fall risk
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 28, 2019
Eldersburg, MD-based Integrace is testing technology meant to help independent living residents assess and reduce their risks of falling.
AMDA resolution calls for ‘comfort feeding’ of certain residents with dementia
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 13, 2019
Members of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine should adopt a policy of “comfort feeding” for certain residents with dementia rather than honor advance directives that indicate...
NIC: Labor issues critical to senior living market assessment
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 25, 2019
Labor issues are critical considerations for senior living operators and developers when assessing markets, National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Chief Economist Beth Burnham Mace told...
Paul Ryan talks healthcare, immigration at NIC in first post-Congress speech
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 22, 2019
The Medicaid and immigration programs will be reformed, and senior living and long-term care providers can help shape the outcome, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said during Thursday’s...
Acquisitions on tap for Omega Healthcare Investors in 2019, CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 13, 2019
Omega Healthcare Investors plans to pick up the pace of acquisitions in 2019, and senior living will play a role, executives said Tuesday during an earnings call.
Assisted living company owner linked to Trump-Russia investigation indicted for alleged $1.2 million...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 08, 2019
A South Dakota businessman alleged to be a potential link between the Trump campaign and the Russian government has been indicted on 11 unrelated counts of wire fraud and money laundering in part for allegedly...