HRA seeks to sharpen its image with prospects via employee etiquette training
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 10, 2018
As many senior living operators look to add more healthcare services to their offerings, this regional development and operating company is instituting a new program to help ensure that hospitality doesn’t...
LGBT adults worry about abuse, neglect in senior living as they age: survey
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 28, 2018
Worries about potential neglect, abuse, access to services and harassment in assisted living communities and other long-term care settings are common among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults,...
New assisted living database designed to enable operators, lenders to compare communities nationwide
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 05, 2018
A new assisted living and memory care quality database by Formation Healthcare Group and Vision LTC has completed beta testing and has been launched publicly to a limited number of organizations, the companies...
It’s time for national standards in assisted living, authors argue
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 27, 2018
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...
Senior living could lead cultural shift related to aging, report author says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 22, 2018
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....
How to protect your community from inappropriate use of social media use by employees
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 19, 2017
Senior living operators can take steps to reduce risk related to social media use by employees, according to Kristi Eldredge, RN, JD, CPHRM, senior patient safety consultant at medical liability insurance...
5-year study aims to prove benefits of life plan community living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 11, 2017
A five-year study of more than 2,000 life plan community residents by the Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging and Northwestern University will try to determine the effects that living in such a community...
Senior living finds time is ripe for focus on food
By
Alyssa Salela
Aug 28, 2017
Operators and companies serving them increasingly are looking to the dining experience as a way to help senior living residents socially, emotionally and nutritionally.
4 strategies Brookdale is using to combat new competition
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 08, 2017
The opening of new communities near Brookdale Senior Living properties challenged the country’s largest senior living operator in the second quarter, President and CEO Andy Smith told participants...
A Place for Mom is sold to new investors
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 06, 2017
A Place for Mom is being sold to technology investment firm Silver Lake and global growth equity firm General Atlantic by its current investor, growth private equity firm Warburg Pincus, the companies...