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SHN needs your help! Take this short survey about the strategies senior housing operators are using to generate revenue and profit in their dining programs — and help deliver unique insights to the SHN readership. Responses and analysis will be published on SHN in the coming weeks. Survey time is under three minutes. Respondents will […]
Social isolation. Dementia support. Pain management. Staff training. Today, senior living operators are starting to look at virtual reality as a piece of the solution to these challenges — and they’re starting to spend real money on it. In the new report, “Inside The Rise of Senior Living Virtual Reality,” Senior Housing News spoke with […]
After a decade of whispers, trials, pilots and promise, virtual reality (VR) now seems on the precipice of a boom in senior housing and senior care settings. A bevy of companies have cropped up over the past five years to tailor VR solutions directly to senior living. VR is now helping operators address age-old challenges […]
When leaders with non-profit Vincentian Collaborative System began conceiving a new 91-unit independent living community, they did the math on smart tech and realized that sooner is better. The community Terrace Place, which opened April 1 in the Pittsburgh suburb of North Hills, is a $19-million project, with a smart technology offering that cost between […]
Everyone wants to be catered to. Memory care residents don’t just want it – they need it. For close to 30 years, Presbyterian SeniorCare Network in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, has been developing its person-centered care model. In many regards, these person-centred practices reach their peak in memory care dining. “Presbyterian SeniorCare Network lives a person-centered culture […]
When Leisure Care prepares to launch a new branded product line, it conducts market research. Literally. “We get into the market and talk to people who live there (and) we look in the grocery stores and see what’s being promoted,” says Leisure Care Executive Vice President Greg Clark. “That tells a lot.” Seattle-based Leisure Care […]
Kai Hsiao had a vision. Like many in this industry, Hsiao, CEO of the Portland, Oregon-based Eclipse Senior Living, sought improvement in his company’s penetration rates. While this has always been a focus of senior housing leaders, the impending wave of baby boomers changes the equation. Boomers, by virtue of their generational profile, will be […]
Robert Turner didn’t plan to develop senior housing, but that’s the beauty of intergenerational living: he ended up doing it anyway. Turner’s work on a master-plan in Habersham, South Carolina, left residents so happy that they began asking him and his team how they could remain in the community even as they aged and their […]
In a bold move that could give senior housing operators a template for increasing their revenue and power within the care continuum, four companies are teaming up for a big bet on Medicare Advantage. Operators Christian Living Communities (of Englewood, Colorado), Juniper Communities (Bloomfield, New Jersey) and Ohio Living (Columbus, Ohio), and managed services partner […]