Companies in the senior housing space are gearing up to give residents a second Covid-19 vaccine booster following new approvals from the FDA and CDC Tuesday. Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) signed off on a second booster dose of an mRNA vaccine, such as […]
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As the snow started to fall here in Chicago, we kept readers toasty with the latest industry news, including insight from some of the largest financial players in the industry on what 2017 will bring, as well as how the incoming Trump administration could slow overbuilding. Here in the newsroom, we called out the elephant in […]
This week, Senior Housing News readers got a glimpse into senior living board rooms to hear what’s causing the industry both optimism and anxiety across the country. Readers were also clued into which U.S. states use assisted living the most, what’s on the mind of senior living marketing executives, and why the Centers for Medicare […]
If you’re speaking with seniors in the Pacific Northwest, there’s a good chance that they are residing in an assisted living community. That’s because Oregon and Washington have the highest rates of residential care use in the nation, according to data posted last Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The information […]
As summer comes to an end and we begin to brace ourselves for a harsh Chicago winter, conference season is just heating up. This week, Senior Housing News readers heard from the 2016 National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) Fall Conference on how assisted living and independent living communities are giving new […]
There were 30,200 assisted living and similar residential care communities providing services in the United States as of 2014, with the highest concentration in western states, according to a newly released report form the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Staffing patterns in these settings, as measured by average hours per resident day, remained […]
Senior living recently made headlines when a Dallas senior living community quarantined two of its employees due to the scare of Ebola contraction. The scare, while only a scare and not a contraction of the virus, required that the two employees at Dallas-based Windsor Senior Living were placed under quarantine last week because of their close […]
Life expectancy in the United States rose to 78.8 in 2012 — setting a record high. That number is an increase of 0.1 year from 78.7 years in 2011, according to a new report on mortality in the USA from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics. “Although changes in […]
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