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...
Key to providing healthcare in senior living? ‘Just get started’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 06, 2023
Thinking about tapping into Medicare payment models to deliver healthcare to senior living residents? One expert has some rather stark advice.
Assisted living held up as solution to ‘loneliness epidemic’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 05, 2023
The senior living industry is holding the assisted living model up as a solution to strengthening social connections for older adults in the wake of the US Surgeon General’s advisory on the public health...
Analysis: Senior living operators have leverage in efforts to save healthcare dollars
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 05, 2020
SAN DIEGO — A new analysis makes a case for senior living operators to leverage the value of their settings to work with payers and healthcare providers to improve resident health and save the healthcare...
LeadingAge on Wednesday urged federal policymakers “to address the needs of older adults living in other congregate and community-based settings” in addition to the needs of nursing home residents...
Residents’ chronic conditions could push operators to integrate care, housing: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 15, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC — US senior living residents average more than a dozen chronic conditions each, and many residents use high-cost healthcare services, suggesting ways that operators can integrate care...
Partnerships critical to serving middle-income older adults, NIC speakers say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 06, 2020
Panelists discussed how to cost-effectively deliver healthcare to middle-income older adults in senior housing on Thursday at the NIC Spring Conference.