Legislation was recently introduced into the Senate that end the ability for nursing home residents to waive their right to trials. Prior to admitting new patients, many nursing homes are having their clients sign arbitration agreements rather than allowing them to take their disputes to a court of law. The Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration […]
Category: Senior Living
The New York Times ran an article recently on an emerging job and employment trend that says moving specialists are in demand. These “downsizing specialists” are catering to baby boomers and seniors as they move out of their homes and into smaller homes or assisted living facilities. People with degrees in gerontology, health care and […]
Last week the Wall Street Journal published a short article entitled “Designing for the Senior Surge” that discussed bathrooms, appliances and other items in the home being redesigned for seniors as they age in their homes. The article addresses three main areas: vision impairment, motor skills and memory loss. The concept of again in place […]
America’s elderly want to stay at home as long as they can, sometime to the detriment of their health and safety. Seniors often postpone the decision to move into senior housing until after an event occurs that precipitates the change, sometimes an accident or a serious health problem push them over the edge to make […]
A new continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is opening its doors on the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. The first phase of the project,scheduled to begin construction in summer 2008, will include 26 garden homes and 96 apartments in a six story building. The project proposes to include independent living, assisted living, memory support, and […]
Dirty old men. They exist but how about indecent proposals from an 85 year old man to a member of a nursing home’s staff? What do you do, chastise the resident or pick up the phone and dial a prostitute? If you’re a nursing home director in Amsterdam, that’s exactly what you do. For Kildegaarden, […]
The National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry (NIC) released a comprehensive study of long-term care financing in the United States last month. The study addresses the combination of public- and private-sector funding that will be needed to pay for the nation’s growing care needs, especially when Baby Boomers reach their 70s […]
Are we sending mixed messages to the senior community about retirement? For the last 50 years the word retirement has broadly meant “a place of privacy and seclusion and withdrawal from an occupation”. This definition fits the institutional images of nursing homes and severe types of assisted living….do the images of institutional care really sell […]
The stock market is lower and the prices of everyone’s homes are declining to various degrees. These events and the economic aftermath of September 11, 2001 loom large in the minds of senior’s in today turbulent economy as they are strapped for cash to pay for increases in their daily living. But many companies and […]
When it comes to senior housing, does size matter? Yes, of course it does. Except in this case, smaller is usually construed as better giving seniors more mobility, lowering their costs to maintain their properties and increased social activities are the driving forces for the seniors downsizing their primary and secondary housing choices. The trend […]
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