If ever there was a year that “Caring is Essential,” it is 2020. Indeed, the theme of this year’s National Assisted Living Week (with an emphasis on the AL in essential), which began Sunday, is very...
Here’s the deal for all you high-end operators out there
Oct 29, 2015
After 16 years, American Express and Costco Wholesale Corp. are ending what many once saw as a match made in heaven. The news carries two lessons for senior living operators.
Senior living’s slide into the welfare class
By
John O'Connor
Sep 03, 2020
The push for support for assisted living from Uncle Sam is intensifying. But as any skilled care operator will remind you, Uncle Sam tends to be a very demanding business partner.
Parkinson ponders post-election landscape
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 02, 2020
Regardless of how long we need to wait after Election Day until we know the results, they will have “enormous implications on everything, including long-term care,” American Health Care Association...
An ally in the minimum wage battle
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 14, 2016
Senior living operators who oppose an increase in the national minimum wage to $15 have an ally in Richard Fisher, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas.
Thanking veterans for their service
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 13, 2017
As senior living and care communities observe Veterans Day, members of the federal government took the opportunity to share related news.
3 ways COVID-19 will change senior living forever
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 04, 2020
One senior living expert recently shared with me three ways senior living surely will change, and another way it will change at least temporarily, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Senior living operators, ready for some small ball?
By
John O'Connor
May 23, 2019
A landmark report is calling on senior living operators to consider reducing prices.
Payers ‘can’t ignore assisted living,’ former senators say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 27, 2017
Former Sens. Tom Daschle and Bill Frist showed prescience at the NIC Spring Investment Forum when they said that any reform to the Affordable Care Act would need bipartisan support to be successful. They...
This senior living model is a step beyond person-centered care
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 11, 2016
Three principles that guide the Scandinavian Living Center in West Newton, MA, will remind you of person-centered care. It’s the fourth principle that sets the Scandinavian model apart from other...