California may allow some form of videotaping in assisted living facilities, following mounting pressures from concerned families and positive outcomes from an Orange County facility that installed the...
2014 banner year for senior living providers; top lists released
By
John Hall
Mar 28, 2015
Senior living providers had a remarkably positive 2014, marked by record investments and acquisitions, growing occupancy rates and swelling demand, according to the annual analysis of the largest senior...
Middle muddle
By
John Hall
Oct 21, 2019
Investors eye margins, and developers explore affordable options.
Assisted living resident kicked out after hiring prostitutes with liquor-sale proceeds
By
John Hall
May 13, 2015
An assisted living facility was willing to look the other way whenever one of its residents would return from a “booze run” to pander liquor to other residents, but not when its staff discovered...
A Q&A with NIC’s Robert Kramer
By
John Hall
Sep 13, 2016
Robert G. Kramer, founder and CEO of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, recently spoke with McKnight’s about the current state and future prospects of independent living,...
Major Brookdale investor ratchets up fight for change, seats on board
By
John Hall
Mar 17, 2015
Sandell Asset Management vowed Monday to take its shakeup demands directly to Brookdale Senior Living shareholders, announcing its nomination of three replacements for Brookdale board members whose posts...
Parts science, humanity
By
John Hall
May 10, 2017
Curbing incontinence requires more than theories or formulas; providers find answers to some of their toughest problems by using both head and heart.
It’s not unavoidable
By
John Hall
Aug 01, 2016
Operators continue to battle a condition that has been remarkably resistant
A drug problem
By
John Hall
Apr 01, 2016
Managing medications poses complex challenges in senior living
Healthcare now the biggest cyber-attack target, report reveals
By
John Hall
May 11, 2015
The leading causes for breaches and attacks on healthcare organizations Ponemon identified are (in order of severity): theft, employee negligence and malware. The biggest vulnerability for each of the...