Senior living asking rates hit near-record highs year over year: NIC
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 30, 2023
Growth for asking rates for independent living, assisted living and memory care each hit “near record highs” in the first quarter, National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Chief Economist...
7 percent of long-term care municipal bonds are in default: report
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 24, 2023
Seven percent of senior living and care-related municipal bonds are in default, compared with a default rate of less than 1% for all state and local government debt, Bloomberg reported Monday.
Knowledge transfer must improve for senior living’s full potential to be realized
By
Scott Eckstein
May 15, 2023
The senior living industry has a phenomenal gap in the transfer of knowledge from one generation of leaders to the next, and it leads to failings and poor management. We need to do better.
15 and fit: An operator’s perspective on 15 years in senior living
By
Shelley Esden
May 01, 2023
Older Americans will soon outnumber their children — something that will change the face of senior living and change the world in ways we have yet to imagine.
Challenge for senior living: Move from ‘siloed to seamless,’ NIC founder says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 13, 2022
A final driver shaping the future of senior living is “moving from siloed to seamless,” National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care founder and strategic adviser Robert Kramer wrote in the...
This senior living community has celebrity chef, restaurant open to public
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 17, 2022
When The Hacienda at Georgetown opens near Austin, TX, in early 2023, the amenities on the 13-acre campus will include fine-dining meals prepared by celebrity chef Stephan Pyles.
Senior living’s challenge of omission and commission
By
John O'Connor
Sep 22, 2022
Long-term care could be made better with funding from Congress. But for now, it appears we’ll have to settle for a congressional commission.
Senior living operators are not all in this together
By
John O'Connor
Aug 18, 2022
Is the senior living field about to blossom, or mired in trouble? The obvious answer: Yes and yes. But celebrate good times? Come on.
Senior living municipal bonds ‘most directly harmed’ by pandemic: Moody’s
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 19, 2022
Municipal bonds to senior living communities were among the most delinquent in the first quarter of 2022, according to an April 15 report by Moody’s Investors Service.
Latest senior living stats reason to be ‘cautiously optimistic’ about comeback from pandemic
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 08, 2021
The latest NIC MAP quarterly data, released Thursday, provide reasons to be “cautiously optimistic” about the senior living industry’s comeback from the pandemic, National Investment Center for Seniors...