Brookdale Senior Living Sells Remaining 20% Stake in HCA Venture

Brookdale Senior Living has sold its remaining 20% equity interest in its home health and hospice joint-venture with HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) to HCA for $27 million. Brookdale, the nation’s largest operator with 672 communities in 42 states, confirmed the sale to HCA on Wednesday. The sale comes months after Brookdale CEO Cindy Baier said […]

Senior Living Cap Rates Rise in 2023, Prospect of Supply-Demand Improvement in 2024 

Capitalization rates rose across all senior living product types in the latter half of 2023 as challenges remained stubborn. But the new year should bring more improvement to supply-demand dynamics. That’s according to a new investor sentiment report for the second half of 2024 from CBRE Valuation and Advisory Services. The survey, conducted in October, […]

9 Quotes That Defined Senior Living in 2023 and Suggest What’s In Store for 2024

After a slower start than many operators had hoped in 2023, the senior living industry is poised to regain pre-pandemic occupancy in 2024 – but many of the pandemic era’s challenges still remain. Challenges for the year ahead include finding ways to grow as new development remains tough, navigating lingering high expenses, staffing communities with […]

Senior Living Rental Rates Still Growing at Near-Record Pace

Senior living rental rates are still growing at a near-record pace, according to a new update from NIC MAP Vision. Rental rates for the three main senior living product types – independent living, assisted living and memory care – “maintained near-record highs observed since the onset of 2023,” according to NIC Principal Omar Zahraoui. Memory […]

Washington Post Reports Highlight Assisted Living Resident Elopements and Staffing Problems, Industry Pushes Back

(Updated Jan. 3, 2023) A new Washington Post investigation has detailed dozens of incidents where senior living residents have wandered away and died as well as “bare-bones” staffing levels at communities across the country. In one article published over the weekend, the Post examined thousands of cases since 2018 where senior living residents wandered away […]

Senior Living Operators Plan to Up Tech Budgets With Focus on Health Care, Staffing

Health care payments and a need to better communicate with and engage staff are having an outsized impact on the kinds of technology investments senior living operators expect to make in the coming year. That’s according to a new Senior Housing News survey recently published in collaboration with senior living technology company CarePredict. On the […]

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 […]

ZOM Targets Active Adult in Next Growth Push After Opening First Senior Living Communities

ZOM Senior Living is positioning itself to capture the “migration patterns” of older adults as the company gears up for growth, after completing its first luxury housing communities over the past year. Primarily focused on multifamily development, ZOM Living started its senior housing vertical in 2018 and completed its first community, Wellington Bay, in September […]

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 […]