National Senior Fitness Day is this Wednesday, May 26 and many communities are celebrating by participating in various special event by over 100,000 older adults at more than 1,000 locations throughout the United States. In its 17th year, National Senior Fitness Day is the nation’s largest health promotion event for older adults and is organized [...]
COLLAGE, The Art & Science of Healthy Aging, a consortium of aging service organizations using an automated assessment system to advance healthy aging, has announced an exclusive agreement with The Center for Information Management, Inc. (CIM), an Ann Arbor, MI-based company. CIM will create, deploy and support web-based tools, a second-generation software package, for COLLAGE [...]
The costs of senior housing are increasing even as occupancy rates fell for senior housing in the first quarter of 2010 according to data recently released by National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry (NIC). The data, which analyzes the top 31 metro markets in the United States, shows that the number [...]
Emeritus Corporation (NYSE: ESC) announced last week that was approved for the purchase and sale agreement in the Sunwest bankruptcy auction with its joint venture partners and that it entered into a separate agreement with HCP, Inc. and Texas HCP Holdings, L.P. to lease four senior living communities located in Illinois and Texas consisting of [...]
Ryan Companies US, Inc. has announced the completion of a 20,000-square-foot residential facility in Cook, Minn., for Spectrum Health Company. Carefree Living-Cook, a $3.1 million dollar project, consists of 16 assisted-living suites and 13 memory-care units.
The McGregor Foundation announced recently that it has distributed $520,902 to a wide range of organizations during its semi-annual grantmaking cycle. The foundation granted $45,000 to the City of Cleveland towards implementation of Economic Security Centers, a competitive matching-grant program sponsored by the National Council on Aging. The Centers will provide financial counseling to 500 [...]
Elderly Communal Housing at Dallas (ECHAD), managed by The Legacy Senior Communities, Inc. since 1981, has been awarded positive marks by the Southwest Housing Compliance Corporation. Following a recent visit to the campus, the Southwest Housing Compliance Corporation, administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Texas, awarded the apartment community superior scores [...]
Trilogy Health Services announced that it recently celebrated its grand opening of Prairie Lakes Health Campus and The Legacy at Prairie Lakes. Prairie Lakes offers a full continuum of senior living and related health care services including short-term rehabilitation, long-term care, and assisted living, all offered in a homelike setting that features an abundance of [...]
New jobs are up from all parts of the country, check out Senior Housing Jobs now. Want to announce your key hires and promotions….email them to us at movers-shakers@seniorhousingnews.com. This week’s movers and shakers are:
