More than 90 senior living communities will be considered for cutting-edge design awards in new construction and renovation. Senior Housing News, an Aging Media Network publication, is pleased to announce the nominees for the fifth-annual Senior Housing News (SHN) Architecture & Design Awards. Over 90 communities nationwide submitted new construction and renovation projects for consideration […]
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Deadline Extended! Friday, November 2nd at 5 PM Central The deadline to enter the SHN awards has been extended to this Friday. Don’t miss the chance to join owners, operators, developers, architects and designers in this year’s SHN Architecture & Design Awards. Participants have until Friday, November 2, to submit their entries, which will be judged by a panel […]
Affordable senior housing may not carry a reputation as the flashiest property type, but it plays a vital role in serving low-income seniors. And while developing or designing the property type can require a different mentality than traditional senior housing—as evidenced when The Shelter Group bowed out of the affordable-housing sector to focus on its Brightview […]
In the not-too-distant future, caregivers and doctors could use embedded sensors to remotely monitor senior living residents as they sleep or move about their apartments. And it’s not science fiction. Those forward-thinking ideas were incorporated into the design that won the Student Exhibition category in the 2017 Senior Housing News Design Awards. This year’s winning entry […]
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, tells Senior Housing News. “It gave us the opportunity to […]
When David Freshwater, chairman of Watermark Retirement Communities, and David Barnes, the company’s president and CEO, set out to build a skilled nursing facility for the first time, they had decades of experience with SNF design to show them what was needed— and what to avoid. The result was The Springs at Hacienda at the River […]
The Kingswood Senior Living Community in Kansas City, Missouri, has been around for over 35 years—and, until recently, that fact was painfully obvious to both residents and management. A couple of years ago, its occupancy was low—about 64%—and attracting new residents had begun to prove challenging, due at least in part to the community’s drab, […]
Despite its location in a city of 1.5 million, the 35-story Sun City Kobe Tower manages to successfully evoke nature. “Even though you’re in a very urban setting, once you walk in the front door, you’re exposed with this incredibly lush garden space,” the project’s architect Richard Beard, principal of Richard Beard Architects, tells Senior […]
When Willow Valley Communities, a non-profit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, finished work on a sizable independent living project last summer, it added an array of upscale amenities for its roughly 2,300 residents. But one of the most celebrated amenities was also one that stood far above the rest—literally. As part of the new development—which includes […]
In 1919, the A.S. Kreider Shoe Company moved into a newly built, 64,000-square-foot factory. Throughout the years, the large brick building in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has served as the home of Lebanon Dress Company, Hermann Handkerchief, and, now, Kreider Commons, the 2017 Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Award winner in the “Best Affordable Housing” category. Recently, […]
