Senior living communities struggle to sell value amid increasing rates
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 19, 2024
As senior living operators continue to try to recoup COVID-19 pandemic costs, sales teams aren’t necessarily doing the best job selling value in the face of increasing prices, according to a marketing...
Improving workplace can lower assisted living nurse turnover rates, decrease burnout
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 20, 2024
Understanding the factors that contribute to burnout among assisted living nurses can drive interventions to ease high turnover rates, according to an expert in the field.
‘Alarming’ legal opinion could be ‘detrimental’ to senior living project financing, leaders say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 16, 2024
An “alarming” legal opinion affecting a federal loan program popular with senior living and care organizations could have a “detrimental” effect on maintaining senior living communities and other...
Senior living and care leads record-breaking distress in healthcare sector bankruptcy filings
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 14, 2024
Distress levels in healthcare, as measured by the number of bankruptcy filings, had another record-breaking quarter, led by the senior living and care sector, according to the latest Polsinelli-TrBK Distress...
CCRC program bridges gap between assisted living, memory care for residents
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 14, 2024
A full memory support program with a growing waiting list prompted one continuing care retirement / life plan community to create a program that bridges the gap between assisted living and full memory...
COVID-19 continues to affect leading causes of death in US: CDC
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic radically altered the rankings of the leading causes of death in the United States in 2020, and although COVID ranks lower on the list of causes in 2023, its effects continue to be...
Sonida Senior Living sees occupancy record, acquires 9 communities
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 13, 2024
Dallas-based Sonida Senior Living saw the highest occupancy in the history of its same-store portfolio and made “considerable” progress on its other growth initiatives, too, in the second quarter,...
Senior living’s ‘bright future’ is built one promise at a time
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 12, 2024
Fee Stubblefield, founder and CEO of Oregon-based The Springs Living, recently spent time with
McKnight’s Senior Living to share insights into tackling senior living’s biggest challenges, making communities...
‘Prudent capital investments’ lead to ‘continued momentum’ for Diversified Healthcare Trust,...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 05, 2024
Diversified Healthcare Trust saw “continued momentum” in its senior housing operating portfolio, or SHOP, in the second quarter due to “favorable tailwinds in senior housing” in addition to “prudent...
Risk of Parkinson’s disease heightened in people with anxiety
Jul 22, 2024
Certain clinical features may identify those who may be in the prodromal phase of Parkinson’s disease.