In case you missed it, here are the top five stories grabbing Senior Housing News readers’ attention this week: Developers Blend Traditional CCRC with Mixed-Use, All-Ages Housing—A Midwest development partnership is mixing senior housing with primary and post-acute care as part of an intergenerational project. Senior Housing Development Boom is More Talk than Action—While new […]
Category: Alzheimer’s Care
Memory care has come a long way. From a not-too-distant past when little was known about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia to the present day when the most developed nations have committed to wage the war on Alzheimer’s—and win it—by 2025, a lot has changed. Today, assisted living providers have designed designated memory care “neighborhoods” and […]
In case you missed it, here are the top five stories grabbing Senior Housing News readers’ attention this week: Caring.com Announces 2014′s Top-Rated Assisted Living Communities—Caring.com announced its annual best-of assisted living based and memory care communities; this year naming 405 communities to its list of “Caring Stars.” Holiday New Integrated Media Campaign Provides Big Boost […]
Construction: Planned Granger Group Plans $25 Million Senior Living Community The Granger Group, a real estate developer based in Wyoming, Michicgan, announced it will build a $25 million, 130-unit senior living community on the campus of Metro Health Village, reports MLive. Plans for the four-story building include 70 independent living units, 40 assisted living and […]
Capital Health Group acquired a regional portfolio of seven senior housing communities on December 31, 2013. The eighth asset in the portfolio will close upon the successful assumption of the Department of Housing and Urban Development loan currently encumbering the community. The portfolio was sold by joint ventures composed of private investors and public REITs […]
Among those requiring care for memory-related issues, some are seeking options, far, far from home: in other countries. Some Europeans are finding the care in countries like Thailand is more personal, and much less expensive, according to an Associated Press report published by ABC News. The AP follows one Swiss family through the process of […]
Construction: Planned LCB Senior Living Seeks Approval for New Hampshire Assisted Living Norwood, Massachusetts-based LCB Senior Living is proposing to develop an 84-unit assisted living and memory care community for Salem, New Hampshire, reports New Hampshire Union Leader. Project plans detail a three-story, 73,000-square-foot building across from the Ingram Senior Center on Sally Sweets Way. […]
The Group of Eight (G8) nations are launching a global battle against Alzheimer’s Disease, with a target date of 2025 for curing or finding an effective treatment for dementia, news outlet Reuters reports following a meeting of the international consortium. The G8 will attack Alzheimer’s in the same way it has battled against AIDS, the […]
Most dementia care units, but not all, have special features geared toward alzheimer’s and dementia residents, and those with dementia special care units differed from those without across many metrics. For those units designated specifically for memory care, they differed in terms of size, chain affiliation, Medicaid participation and whether the community was built as […]
The findings of a new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease by a team of researchers at Columbia University allow doctors to predict the time it will take for an Alzheimer’s patient to move into a nursing care setting. “The decline in Alzheimer’s varies from one person to another, but what we show […]
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