Top 10 Senior Housing News Stories of 2023

This was a tough year for the sector, judging by the most-read stories on Senior Housing News. Financial troubles dominated, with Enlivant’s default notice and related negotiations being the most-read story in the last 12 months. The bankruptcy filing of a large CCRC, the troubles at Anthology Senior Living’s parent company, and the closure of […]

Presbyterian Senior Living CEO: Workforce, Dining, Memory Care Changes Position Us for Further Growth in 2024

Presbyterian Senior Living (PSL) CEO Dan Davis sees future opportunities in attracting younger residents and diversifying care, while positioning for growth. Davis has been busy since taking the reins as CEO in November of last year. From focusing on improving staffing issues to revamping operations, including new approaches to dining and memory care, the nonprofit […]

Salmon Health CEO: Full-Continuum Senior Living Model Offers ‘Tremendous Opportunity’ for the Future

Salmon Health and Retirement has in recent years pivoted to hospitality to reach a new generation of older adults – but the company’s CEO, Matt Salmon, is not discounting the appeal of having a continuum of care, either. Today the company has a full continuum of senior care that spans independent living, assisted living and […]

New Disney Storyliving Community With 55+ Housing Planned in North Carolina

A master-planned residential concept with 55+ housing linked to The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is expanding to Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  Known as Asteria, the new, 4,000-unit residential community is slated to see construction “by 2027,” on a site with 1,500 acres of land in Chatham County in Pittsboro, North Carolina, […]

Cogir Starts New Chapter With Expansion, Evolution Underway in U.S., Canada

It’s been a big year for senior living company Cogir. The Montreal-based senior living operator and real estate company earlier this year made waves when it was announced as the operating partner for Welltower’s (NYSE: WELL) new operating platform spinning up in parts of Canada, which until recently was known as “Project Transformer” behind closed […]

How Senior Living Operators Are Turning the Page on Turnover

While staffing issues have moderated slightly from the doldrums of three years ago, senior living operators are still working to solve turnover rates among their ranks using initiatives to improve retention. In a new environment in which wage rates are seemingly permanently elevated compared to just a few years ago – with workers worthy of […]

Goodwin Living CEO: Why Brain Health, At-Home  Care Are Next Frontiers for Senior Living Innovation

Goodwin Living’s future lies in expanding health service offerings as the senior living provider keeps its focus on staffing and other operational efforts. The Alexandria, Virginia-based organization is a faith-based nonprofit that operates three communities in the northern Virginia area serving approximately 1,100 residents with a full continuum of care. Goodwin Living also manages a […]

Anthem Memory Care CEO: New Growth, Once ‘Daunting’ Now Feels ‘Second Nature’

Anthem Memory Care has a clear path forward for future expansion by acquisition as the operator that doubled in size this year continues to grow, according to CEO Isaac Scott.  Anthem reached the 20-community mark earlier this year, having not expanded any new communities between 2017 and 2022, and that was by design, Scott recently […]

Occupancy, Margins, Alignment: How Sinceri Senior Living is Gearing Up for 2024

Sinceri Senior Living has its sights set on “double-digit occupancy growth” next year in a bid to widen margins further into 2024 — and CEO Chris Belford is feeling optimistic. Vancouver, Washington-based Sinceri has already surpassed pre-Covid levels in occupancy and all operating metrics are trending positive, Belford told SHN during a recent interview at […]