Residents’ chronic conditions could push operators to integrate care, housing: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 15, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC — US senior living residents average more than a dozen chronic conditions each, and many residents use high-cost healthcare services, suggesting ways that operators can integrate care...
The business case for employee well-being interventions
By
Michele Holleran, Ph.D., MBA
Jul 11, 2022
Four stressors are compromising the well-being of the aging services workforce like never before. Here are some best practices to address each of the identified sources of burnout.
What’s in a name? Your organization’s future viability, that’s what!
By
Lisa McCracken
Jul 18, 2016
Just as family names were powerful in the story of Romeo and Juliet, names and labels are critical as we look to the future of the senior living sector.
Proposed CCRC bill would change regulatory oversight, increase transparency
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 03, 2023
A proposed bill meant to modernize Florida’s continuing care retirement community laws includes changes to regulatory oversight and transparency for residents.
Seattle life plan community shifts from communal dining to food court model
By
Amy Novotney
Aug 21, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Seattle-based nonprofit life plan community Bayview — like many other seniors housing operators — quickly went from vibrant hustling and bustling dining rooms...
How we market CCRC living in a COVID-19 hot spot
By
Eric L. Eichhorst
Jul 20, 2020
Although the methods we use to market senior living have changed, they never have been more essential to supporting seniors seeking to escape isolation and gain added services and socialization benefits.
CCRCs partner to offer home healthcare to independent living residents
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 08, 2024
Two continuing care retirement communities in western New York have partnered to provide a home healthcare option for the communities’ independent living residents.
Utah’s first life plan community opens
Oct 11, 2018
Summit Vista, Utah’s first life plan community, welcomed residents this week.
Kansas providers may face fee hike after audit reveals many wrongly paid cut-rate assessments
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 05, 2024
Continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes in Kansas could face additional scrutiny — and in some cases, higher fees — after a recent audit from the Kansas Medicaid inspector general’s...
CCRCs have less time to refund entrance fees under new law
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 21, 2018
Continuing care retirement communities will have have less time to return refundable portions of entrance fees to residents or their estates after move-out under a new law signed Friday by New Jersey Gov....