The Gilbert Guide just launched an updated listing and lead tracking system for senior care services providers that provides more enhancements and improvements to existing lead tracking software. The enhanced lead tracking system allows providers to track how many users viewed their listing, clicked through to their website, and clicked to obtain their phone number–along [...]
The Calgary Herald ran an article last week entitled, “Senior home care companies booming“, that went so far as to state that many of its home care businesses that cater to seniors are seeing steady growth in 2008. The article focuses on one or two national Canadian home-care companies but fails to provide a broader [...]
President Barack Obama revealed his much anticipated plan to fight the housing crisis by proposing to spend almost $300 billion to shore up the housing market and stem the onslaught of foreclosures. The plan calls for assisting almost 9 million homeowners that include those in the foreclosure process and those who are current on their [...]
This year’s Environments for Aging 2009 Facility Tours, set to take place Sunday, March 29 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM, will give attendees the opportunity to tour some of Massachusetts’ finest state-of-the-art senior facilities. These tours are part of Environments for Aging 2009, www.efa09.com, offers a comprehensive three-day experience, during which attendees and presenters will explore [...]
Last week, HCP (the “Company”) (NYSE:HCP – News) announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2008. Funds from operations (“FFO”) applicable to common shares was $121.5 million, or $0.48 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2008, compared to FFO applicable to common shares of $117.2 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, [...]
The oft-neglected problem of grandparents raising grandchildren is getting some unique assistance in Milwaukee from a housing perspective. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal ran a story last week entitled, Kid-friendly senior housing proposed, profiled a development on Milwaukee’s north side that would create a 47 unit, $10 million affordable, senior apartment complex called Villard Square. The [...]
The topic of moving a senior from one level of care to another has always been a topic of conversation and frustruation amongst residents and facility administrators. The court system has ruled that facility administrators has a duty to provide a resident with medical care based upon the level of need and cannot delegate that [...]
The Gay and Lesbian senior housing movement is heading east. Bellevue Senior Living has transformed a historic manor into a shared single-family residence actively welcoming GLBT seniors (they are accepting straight seniors, too). Bellevue Manor is the first of its kind to provide gay seniors with the opportunity to maintain their current lifestyle with like-minded [...]
American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW) recently announced that CARF-CCAC – the industry accreditation governing body – has awarded all ten of ABHOW’s communities with five-year accreditation in recognition of its ongoing high-level performance in continuing care retirement communities. The Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC) was founded in 1985 as the nation’s only accrediting [...]
