UPDATED: LTC Properties sells, re-leases or transfers management of 35 Brookdale Senior Living communities
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 08, 2024
The REIT expects net proceeds of $23 million and an anticipated net gain of $17 million related to the property sales.
‘Profound’ financial, workforce challenges persist for senior living providers as 2024 begins
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 02, 2024
Senior living operators will continue to face inflationary pressures and capital market challenges in 2024, but some effects may lessen before the year is out, according to senior living industry experts....
Investors predict senior living rent increases of 3 to 7 percent
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 02, 2024
Sixty-six percent of respondents to a newly released survey said they expect rental rate increases of 3% to 7% over the next 12 months for active adult, independent living, assisted living and memory care...
Successfully resolve to increase COVID, flu vaccination in the new year
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 02, 2024
If one of your new year’s resolutions is to increase influenza and COVID-19 vaccination among residents and staff members in 2024, results of a new research study published in JAMA Network Open provides...
Brookdale Senior Living sells remaining interest in home health, hospice, therapy business, sees $27...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 27, 2023
Brookdale Senior Living has sold the remaining 20% equity interest it held in its Health Care Services unconsolidated venture and received aggregate proceeds of approximately $27 million in the process,...
Big senior living stories of 2023
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 21, 2023
The long shadow of the pandemic continued to recede in 2023, although the senior living profession continued to feel its effects. The COVID-19 public emergency ended May 11. Wage growth has declined but...
Brandywine Living acquired by Retirement Unlimited Inc.
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 20, 2023
Mt. Laurel, NJ-based Brandywine Living’s senior living management platform is being acquired by Roanoke, VA-based Retirement Unlimited Inc., RUI announced Wednesday.
Your favorite columns of 2023
Dec 20, 2023
Assisted living regulation, government relations, ageism and pop culture, solutions for the middle market, and chronic disease and resident care were some of the column topics that especially grabbed the...
A big lump of coal … and an opportunity
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 18, 2023
Christmas came early for the senior living field on Sunday, when providers collectively found a big lump of coal in the industry stocking. But that stocking also contains an opportunity.
Quality, safety, accountability vital, industry leaders say, as Washington Post report cites deaths at...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 18, 2023
Senior living industry leaders stressed their belief in the importance of quality, safety and accountability Sunday in response to a package of articles in the Washington Post titled “Memory Inc.,”...