Rachelle DeGeorge For a typical new construction or renovation project the owner of a senior living community is responsible for bringing together Read More »
The warnings have been well reported up to this point. Unfortunately, providers have little say in the matters of Medicaid and the transformations Read More »
The recovery in assisted living is keeping pace as occupancy continues to improve. In 3Q11, assisted living occupancy was 88.6 percent, which is an Read More »
Rendering by Rees Associates, Inc. The first Prevarian Senior Living community, Wyoming Springs Assisted Living and Memory Care in Round Rock, Read More »
Within the largest 30 metropolitan markets (Las Vegas excluded), the number of units in assisted living properties has increased by 7.7 percent Read More »
Allan R. Brown, Jr., is co-founder and principal of Prevarian Senior Living, a relatively new real estate development and investment firm based in Read More »
Daniel Pink, in his opening keynote address at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living’s 62nd Annual Convention & Read More »
In complex mysteries you may have more than one party that is responsible for missing rooms in a senior living community. The worst crime scene I Read More »
Amid lackluster second quarter economic data and increasing uncertainty about future economic growth, nursing care fundamentals through 2Q11 (and in Read More »
“Should memory care residents be in private or semi-private rooms?” This is the question I often get asked by architects and owners new to memory Read More »
St. Charles, Missouri, was the site of the 2011 annual convention for the Pioneer Network. This was the fourth Pioneer event I have attended; I had Read More »
Over the last week or so the temperature each day has been in the 90s and the heat index over 100 degrees. When I was young, I barely noticed these Read More »
For the upcoming July 2011 issue of Long-Term Living, we asked three well known senior living designers to debate the pros and cons of various Read More »
It's not every day you can lock down three of the field's most intriguing and expert sources on aging environments and design to debate best Read More »
For the upcoming July 2011 issue of Long-Term Living, we asked three well known senior living designers to debate the pros and cons of various Read More »
In 1Q11, overall nursing care occupancy was 88.5 percent, which is an improvement of 10 basis points from the prior quarter. Occupancy held up Read More »
Maybe it’s just me; I am getting older but I am starting to say things like “I can’t ever remember so many tornados, this much rain and all of these Read More »
The average private payor nursing care rate continues to grow at approximately three percent annually and has risen a total 17 percent during the Read More »
The Design Challenge: To position an aging Austin, Tex., retirement community to capture the growing independent living market, while enabling best Read More »
Occupancy in nursing care properties rose for the first time in a year during 1Q11 to 88.5 percent, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from the Read More »
Julie Heiberger, Project Architect • Hoffman, LLC Congratulations to all Citation of Merit winners! The new Eden Meadows campus is the culmination Read More »
Tom McQuillen, AIA, LEED AP, Principal • Lizard Rock Designs, LLC Congratulations to all Citation of Merit winners! Casitas on East Broadway Read More »
Willson Hospice House, Albany, Georgia Ila Burdette, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal Perkins+Will Page 42 When Ila Burdette describes her experience Read More »
Webster's Dictionary defines a highway as a “main direct road.” So in healthcare for seniors, the corridors that link resident apartments to Read More »
Collaboration and community involvement are common themes in this year's DESIGN roundtable discussion. Jurors become particularly animated when Read More »
Such innovative and even award-winning design does not come easy. Participants in this year's DESIGN Showcase shared not only their project Read More »
