When Johanna Jameson began exploring memory care as a research subject for her doctoral dissertation, she returned time and again to gaps in care service, and the difference between physical needs and cognitive ones. Jameson, a care consultant at Alzheimer’s Association out of their national Read More »
How Evidence-Based Dining Programs Will Drive Memory Care Move-Ins
Today’s senior living decision-maker — often the adult child of a potential resident — grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, a time when television still fell into the category of “cutting-edge technology” and “making an informed decision” meant employing a mix of anecdotal evidence and Read More »
6 Tips for Building a Data-Driven Memory Care Dining Program
Without significant medical advances, the year 2050 will see the number of people with Alzheimer’s double from today’s level, reaching nearly 14 million. The total number of dementia patients across the globe could triple during that timeframe, hitting 152 million. And no one agrees how Read More »
3 Wellness Tech Initiatives Senior Living Providers Must Deliver
The wellness revolution in senior living is here to stay, and much of it is powered by technology. In a senior living context, wellness focuses on five main components: the emotional, mental, physical, social and spiritual. Technology touches each of these elements. To compete in Read More »
What Senior Living Can Learn About Wellness from Leading Hotel Brands
Senior living providers embracing the world’s wellness revolution should look to hospitality. That’s because big-name hotel brands — including Hyatt, Hilton, Westin and Marriott — are unleashing creative offerings that are changing the face of wellness. Most of these leaders didn’t have to stretch their Read More »
The Rewards—and Risks—of Senior Living Providers as Retail Landlords
The year was 2008, and Presbyterian Homes & Services had a plan for a new mixed-use senior living community. The Minnesota-based senior living provider would develop The Promenade of Wayzata, 14.5 acres of retail, all-ages condos, a hotel and 326 units of assisted living, memory Read More »
Four Creative Approaches to Mixed-Use Senior Living
Mixed-use development in senior living is on the rise, and the creative thinkers are winning. Whether including senior living or not, a common template for residential mixed-use is a single building with public retail, dining or both on the building’s ground floor, and apartments and Read More »
Transactions & Financings: HFF, Summit Senior Living, Capital One
HFF Advises on $115 Million Financing for Seattle Senior Housing Development Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) has advised Columbia Pacific Advisors on the $114.69 million financing for a luxury, high-rise senior housing property in Seattle. The 24-story property—620 Terry—will offer 243 Class A residential units comprising Read More »
Best Memory Care Design 2017: A Small House That Really Feels Like Home
Lynn Peel didn’t just want a small house-style memory care community —she wanted a small house. That’s why the standalone memory care community she runs, The Mooring on Foreside, in Cumberland Foreside, Maine, has only 12 residents. “The number 12 was really important,” Peel, founder and principal, Read More »
Transactions & Financings: Invesque Purchases Three Dallas-Area Communities
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges $11.6 Million Senior Housing Financing Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets has arranged an $11.55 million construction loan for the development The Palms at San Lauren, a 68-unit assisted living and memory care community in Bakersfield, California. The community will be operated Read More »