- Scottsdale, AZ-based Revel Communities has unveiled a program that will enable residents to explore new places by allowing them to rent fully furnished, short-term rental homes across the brand’s portfolio of 13 communities while still keeping their home base at another Revel location. The company has locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state. The idea behind the Seasonal Residence Program is to encourage travel among residents, Danette Opaczewski, executive vice president, resident experience, and chief operating officer, told McKnight’s Senior Living.
- Three industry experts are fighting stereotypes of the senior living experience by using the voices of residents and family members to dispel myths. Activated Insights CEO Jacquelyn Kung, DrPH, MBA, author Ed Frauenheim and Robert Kramer, founder of Nexus Insights and co-founder and strategic adviser to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, wrote an opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News highlighting the positivity emanating from older adults in senior living communities. “The stereotype of isolated, forlorn elders belies recent surveys of older adults in senior living settings,” they wrote.
- Two senior living caregivers have been charged with abuse and exploitation for allegedly stealing a resident’s identity and debit card and then abandoning the resident on the side of the road on a “particularly hot day” in 2019. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the arrests and charges following an investigation by the state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. According to Moody, Tavetta Lavetta Jones and Tekera Levine, employees of Whispering Pines Assisted Living in Pensacola, FL, were supposed to transfer the resident to sign bond paperwork. Instead, they are accused of abandoning the resident on the side of the road on Sept. 3, 2019, and stealing the resident’s identification and debit cards. The resident identified Jones and Levine as the employees involved.
