Senior living operators navigate complex landscape of challenges, opportunities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 08, 2024
The senior living industry is at an “inflection point” as it navigates a changing landscape that holds the possibility of significant transformation due to shifting demographics, evolving consumer...
Senior living sees all-time-high affordability, potential expansion of penetration rate
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 03, 2024
Senior living affordability is improving, and a growing customer base that is materially better off financially than members of previous generations could expand the penetration rate, according to the...
Report adds to research showing health benefits for senior living residents
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 21, 2024
Senior living residents — particularly residents of continuing care retirement / life plan communities — experience the same or better health outcomes compared with their peers living in the greater...
Identifying highest-risk assisted living communities key to tackling next outbreak: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 22, 2024
The public health response to COVID-19 in assisted living communities in New York highlights the need to identify those communities at highest risk of infectious disease outbreaks to provide necessary...
Caregivers, not just people with dementia, need screenings, interventions for loneliness, study shows
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 20, 2024
Isolation and loneliness are a shared experience and a source of distress not only for people with dementia, but also their caregivers, according to new study findings.
Study proving longevity benefits of senior living is something for operators to ‘jump up and down’...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 06, 2024
Older adults who live in senior living communities live longer, receive more healthcare services and benefit from greater rehabilitative and preventive care within the first two years of moving into a...
Innovative opportunities to serve the middle market are waiting: panel
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 02, 2024
The time has come for the senior housing and care sector to figure out how to scale housing and services to meet the needs of the growing market of middle-income older adults, a panel of experts said Thursday.
Accelerated pace of change will continue for senior living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 04, 2024
The senior housing and care industry has experienced an accelerated pace of change over the past decade — particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic — in areas including technology adoption, workforce...
Report identifies where assisted living rents are changing the most
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 19, 2024
The assisted living sector touts itself as the most cost-effective option to provide quality-of-life care and services for the nation’s older adults. But that value comes at a cost, according to a new...
Increased regulation, active adult, Medicaid HCBS top list of trends predicted for senior living in 2024
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 13, 2023
Heightened state regulation, dementia care support, the rise of active adult communities and the increased provision of home- and community-based services to Medicaid beneficiaries are among the top trends...