Guilt: Confronting Senior Living’s Biggest Marketing Challenge

Marketing Matters is brought to you by Solutions Advisors and Retiring by Design. Working together, Solutions Advisors and Retiring by Design give you the analytic and creative synergy to develop unique solutions and achieve optimum results for your senior living community, providing management, operations, marketing, and sales consulting services.  A rising need for high acuity […]

Movers & Shakers — People and Positions for October, Part I

Lifespace Communities CCRC Hires New Executive Chef Urbandale, Iowa-based Deerfield, a Lifespace Communities CCRC, has welcomed Justin Comer as its new executive chef.  Comer brings to the position more than 20 years of culinary experience, serving in top roles at several area restaurants. He has worked as an executive chef at Centro and as the […]

CCRC Sees New Move-Ins by Reversing Continuum of Care

Marketing Matters is brought to you by Solutions Advisors and Retiring by Design. Working together, Solutions Advisors and Retiring by Design give you the analytic and creative synergy to develop unique solutions and achieve optimum results for your senior living community, providing management, operations, marketing, and sales consulting services. A continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is […]

AdCare Hires Senior Housing, REIT Veteran McBride as New CEO

Months after the company announced its transition out of senior housing operations, AdCare Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ADK) has hired senior housing and REIT veteran William “Bill” McBride III as president and CEO, effective immediately. McBride — who previously served as CEO of Assisted Living Concepts (now Enlivant) and as President, COO and director […]

The Ensign Group Acquires 9-Property AL and Skilled Nursing Portfolio

With already 11 acquisitions announced this year, California-based provider The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG) isn’t slowing down on its purchase spree, announcing plans Monday to buy nearly the entire portfolio of one San Diego provider’s operations.  The company—also the parent entity of the Ensign group of skilled nursing, assisted living, rehabilitative care, home health care, hospice […]

4 Ways Operators Are Reinventing Senior Housing

Whether it’s expanding to add more units or renovating an existing community for the modern era, senior living providers are tackling their construction projects with an eye towards the latest design trends. Though several triggers can let providers know when it might be time for a makeover, there are a number of ways providers can […]

Men Filling Memory Care Communities 14% Faster Than Women

Men are moving into memory care communities at a much quicker pace than women, as their move-ins increase 14% faster than their female counterparts, according to A Place for Mom (APFM) data.  The senior living referral service surveyed its data on men seeking senior care from July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2014, and found […]

Most Read: Top 10 Senior Housing Buzzwords

In case you missed them, here are the top five stories grabbing Senior Housing News readers’ attention this week: Non-Traded REITs: Only Getting Started in Senior Housing — After raising nearly $20 billion of capital last year, non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) are emerging as key players in senior housing finance. And some say they see […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (10/9/14)

Construction: Planned Developers Plan $10 Million Senior Housing Project for Kokomo, Ind. The NRP Group LLC, a Cleveland, Ohio-based developer, this month announced plans to pursue a $10.2 million senior housing project in Kokomo, Ind., reports local Kokomo Tribune. NRP will submit a proposal to the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority for housing tax […]

Heard at NIC: The Top 10 Buzzwords in Senior Housing

The biggest names in senior living converged at this year’s National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC) conference in Chicago. While the panels’ topics varied as widely as the operators, developers, REITs and third-party vendors who attended, a few key subjects permeated many of the senior living sessions. SHN compiled the following list […]