Occupancy closes in on pre-pandemic levels with 11th consecutive quarterly increase: NIC
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 05, 2024
Senior living occupancy continued to close in on pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2024, as occupancy increased for the 11th consecutive quarter, according to data released Thursday by the National...
Bake sale-supported nursing home turns to assisted living to survive
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Josh Henreckson
Apr 05, 2024
A Rhode Island nursing home that had turned to a grassroots funding campaign that included a resident-run bake sale to avoid closure is reworking one of its floors into a memory-care focused assisted...
Mortality, hospice use rates differ in assisted living communities depending on whether memory care is...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 04, 2024
Assisted living communities that provide memory care services may attract residents closer to the end of life or promote hospice use at the end of life compared with assisted living communities without...
Diversified Healthcare Trust reports occupancy dips, NOI increases
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 04, 2024
Newton, MA-based real estate investment trust Diversified Healthcare Trust’s senior housing operating portfolio continues its post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery, although occupancy dipped slightly in February,...
Proposed licensure changes would increase costs for assisted living providers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 04, 2024
New Jersey’s proposed switch from one set of licensure standards for assisted living communities and personal care homes to another may or may not bode well for providers, but one thing is certain —...
Hospices with higher assisted living volume had lower-quality scores, study shows
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 02, 2024
Hospice providers that served higher volumes of assisted living patient days had lower-quality scores, according to a new study.
Well-being could be the path to improved dementia prevention and care: report
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 01, 2024
Increasing well-being may be a promising nonpharmacological approach to preventing dementia, and among people already living with dementia, well-being may be improved through environmental changes and...
Congress should create national database about older adults in guardianships, group says
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 01, 2024
Congress should create and fund a national database that contains demographic data about older adults who have guardians, recommends a new white paper from Justice in Aging.
Counties in South see highest percent population change, Census Bureau reports
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 01, 2024
Counties in the South had the highest percent change in population from 2022 to 2023, on average, compared with the other regions of the country, according to new population estimates released by the US...
Assisted living rates up 0.6 to 3.8 percent
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 29, 2024
Average assisted living community rates increased between 0.6 and 3.8% in 2023 nationally, depending on room type, according to illumifin, an administration and claims solution provider for long-term care...