Continuing Care at Home programs, formerly called “CCRCs without walls,” are growing in popularity as offerings by senior living and care providers, with more than 30 programs now available...
CCRC ratings unlikely to be affected by SNF staffing mandates: Fitch
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 21, 2023
The minimum staffing rule that most nursing homes will be required to meet within the next three years will add to staffing pressures at continuing care retirement / life plan communities, but it will...
Business briefs, Feb. 2
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 02, 2024
Takeaways from NIC MAP’s fourth-quarter fundamentals release … Erickson’s Lantern Hill transitions to 80% refundable entrance fee structure … 2Life Communities’ Solimine House in Lynn, MA, awarded...
5-year study aims to prove benefits of life plan community living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 11, 2017
A five-year study of more than 2,000 life plan community residents by the Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging and Northwestern University will try to determine the effects that living in such a community...
$215,000 disability discrimination complaint could have ‘broader ramifications’ on resident contracts,...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 12, 2023
A Pennsylvania continuing care retirement community agreed to a $215,000 Fair Housing Act settlement over allegations of disability discrimination, but the senior living owners and operators said that...
Occupancy in CCRCs taking longer to bounce back: Ziegler
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 20, 2022
Although continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs, also known as life plan communities) did a better job of maintaining occupancy before and during the pandemic, other areas of senior housing are...
27 members of Congress urge CMS to withdraw proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 14, 2020
A bipartisan coalition of 27 members of the House of Representatives is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation.
Life plan community model remains stable, viable: report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 16, 2020
Life plan communities were the type of senior living community least affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, reaffirming their stable future, according to a report from specialty investment bank Ziegler.
CCRC residents ‘significantly safer’ from COVID deaths than older adults not living in congregate...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 02, 2023
SAN DIEGO—Residents of continuing care retirement communities were “significantly safer” from dying from COVID-19 than were older adults living in noncongregate residential settings in the greater...
CCRC occupancy inches up to 85.7 percent in fourth quarter
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 03, 2022
Life plan community occupancy was 85.7% in the fourth quarter of 2021, up 0.3 percentage points from the third quarter and 1.4 percentage points from a pandemic low seen in the first two quarters of the...