Q. How do I evaluate the appropriate primary market area definition for a specific site location or community?
A. The primary market area, or PMA, for a senior living community should represent the area...
7 benefits of mystery shopping the competition in senior living
By
Jim Moore
Apr 10, 2020
Once a mystery shop is completed for your area competitors, you can compare and measure several types of information.
Five key senior living operational challenges for 2020
By
Jim Moore
Dec 20, 2019
Here are the important operational challenges on which you should increase your focus in 2020.
Study suggests higher Medicaid payments for assisted living operators
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 07, 2017
States should make certain that Medicaid payments to assisted living community operators are high enough to encourage them to serve Medicaid beneficiaries and to increase beneficiaries’ access to...
7 hot markets for new seniors housing inventory
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 27, 2017
Almost one-third of the 35,000 units of seniors housing units added in primary and secondary markets over the past year have been built in seven metropolitan markets, according to National Investment Center...
3 ways to improve employee engagement
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 27, 2017
Supervisors in senior living are more engaged at work than are their peers in corporate America, but the industry will need to do better if it wants to reduce turnover in the field, according to one expert.
Aging-in-place challenges in active adult communities
By
Lynne Moore
Aug 01, 2022
Q. Will active adult living experience the aging-in-place challenges experienced by other living arrangements in the senior living and care continuum?
Could active adult housing be a solution to the middle-market affordability challenge?
By
Jim Moore
Aug 31, 2021
Several operators/providers are attempting to develop products to address this challenge.
Can hotels be effectively renovated and repurposed for senior living?
By
Jim Moore
Apr 01, 2021
Such a conversion strategy requires the appropriate due diligence and is not without challenges and potential pitfalls.
Union membership down, Labor Department says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 30, 2017
Across the country, the percentage of workers who belonged to unions decreased 0.4 percentage points from 2015 to 2016, according to new data from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.