Costs for linked-benefit long-term care insurance policies drop up to 15 percent from last year
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 15, 2023
Costs for linked-benefit long-term care insurance policies — policies linked with another type of policy, such as life insurance — generally are between 10% and 15% lower in 2023 than they were a year...
Negotiated risk agreements may mitigate ligation exposure, experts say
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 29, 2022
Negotiated risk agreements between an assisted living community and a resident (or his or her power of attorney) can help the operator in the event of a lawsuit, according to nationwide law firm Baker,...
Balancing costs, benefits a challenge in recruiting, retaining workers: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 14, 2023
Battling increasing costs while investing in employee benefits often is a balancing act in the recruitment and retention of employees, according to the results of a survey from London-based global advisory,...
Gender wage gap widens with age
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 10, 2024
“Older women workers — who comprise 47% of the labor force ages 55 and older — are plagued by a gender wage gap that is even larger than the one their younger counterparts experience,” according...
Fee-for-service skilled nursing utilization stable but still below pre-pandemic levels
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 22, 2024
National fee-for-service skilled nursing facility utilization has been stable year over year from the third quarter of 2023 to the third quarter of this year, but utilization remains 2 percentage points...
Edenwald Senior Living partners with Goucher College to join increasing number of university retirement...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 11, 2024
Edenwald Senior Living, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement / life plan community in Towson, MD, is partnering with Goucher College to become a university retirement community, a growing national...
Fitch lowers life plan community sector outlook to negative, but no all-encompassing rating action
By
Amy Novotney
May 27, 2020
Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook on life plan communities to negative last week, reflecting the rating agency’s concern that many of COVID’s risks still lie ahead.
Actions & Transactions, July 21
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 21, 2021
Lone Star Funds purchases 10-property portfolio from Healthpeak Properties for $334M … Anthology Senior Living acquires 7.7 acres for independent living, assisted living and memory care community …...
Actions & Transactions, May 1
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 01, 2024
Blakeford Senior Life opens $75M expansion, renovation, launches foundation … Merchants Capital provides $29M for refinancing of senior housing in lower Manhattan … Phorcys Capital Partners acquire...
Senior living investors re-examine portfolios: NIC Leadership Huddle
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 24, 2021
Despite seeing lower occupancy levels through the pandemic, senior living investors are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, according to panelists at last week’s Leadership Huddle of the National...