Perhaps not surprisingly, adults aged 70 or more years are more likely to have older technology, such as desktop computers and regular phones, than those aged 50 to 69, according to a survey recently conducted by the AARP. The results contain a few surprises, however.
A rule requiring assisted living communities in Florida to have backup generators has stalled in the state House of Representatives due to concerns about costs that operators could incur.
The assisted living industry should look to the skilled nursing industry for standards that could be implemented to help improve resident care and operators’ bottom lines, said the authors of an editorial published in JAMDA, the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Senior housing investors are shifting to prefer communities that offer both independent living and assisted living (with or without memory care) on one campus, according to newly released results of a survey by professional services firm JLL.
Andy Smith is being replaced as president and CEO at Brookdale Senior Living, and Daniel Decker will be leaving his position as executive chairman, the company announced this morning in advance of its fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 earnings call.
The senior living industry, with innovation and imagination, could drive a new era of healthful aging, one of the authors of a new report from the Milken Institute told McKnight’s Senior Living. “But things must change,” she added.
If anyone in senior living or long-term care is screaming in relation to the results of this year’s Fellowship Matches, they are screams of despair.
More thorough background checks would be required of all Georgia assisted living community owners, workers with direct access to residents and applicants for jobs with duties that would put them in direct contact with residents under a bill now being considered by the state senate.
Memory care will be the biggest growth area in senior living and long-term care in 2018, predict executives participating in Lancaster Pollard’s “2018 Seniors Housing and Care Survey,” the results of which were released Tuesday.
Staffing and labor issues by far are the biggest concerns of senior living chief financial officers responding to a recent poll by specialty investment bank Ziegler.
