Morning Pointe Senior Living is going bigger on memory care, with plans underway to expand those services in three of the company’s communities. The expansion comes from an increasing need for memory care services within the markets Morning Pointe serves, according to Co-Founder and CEO Franklin Farrow. The Ooltewah, Tennessee-based company is currently engaged in […]

By Audrie Martin Senior living operators have for years sought to provide their services at a rate that middle-income older adults can afford. For memory care operators, that is a tough task. Faced with a resident population that needs much more care than is typical in other product types like independent living, memory care operators […]

In the future, blood tests may play an outsized role in the early diagnosis of people living with cognitive decline. In a newly published story in science magazine Scientific American, neurologist and neuroscientist Suzanne Schindler explored how blood tests are becoming an important tool for the detection and early treatment of Alzheimer’s. When an older […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has officially opened a new facility that is aimed at advancing dementia research and treatment. The 20,000 square foot center, located within the UAB Callahan Eye Hospital and called the UAB Brain Aging and Memory Hub, contains divisions in the school’s department of neurology, neuropsychology and cognitive and […]

A new blood test that could help identify Alzheimer’s earlier from healthcare company Roche has received a Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The test, branded “Elecsys” and under development with Eli Lilly and Company, can aid in identifying the likelihood of amyloid pathology in a person’s brain, according to Laura […]

If you asked Pegasus Senior Living CEO Chris Hollister what keeps him up at night, he might tell you it’s the ongoing challenges in staffing.That is especially challenging in memory care. But thanks to predictive analytics and quantitative data analysis, improvements are already playing out for the company. Since the launch of Pegasus’ staffing model, […]

Transactions Blueprint advises on sale of Michigan community Blueprint announced it advised a real estate investment trust in the sale of an assisted living and memory care community in Wyoming, Michigan on April 4. According to a press release, the community was built in 2015 and consists of 102 units. The seller selected a Virginia-based […]

People who use cannabis for non-medical reasons may have a lower chance of developing cognitive decline. That’s according to a study published in Current Alzheimer Research with the National Library of Medicine. The study, in which researchers sought to determine whether cannabis consumption had an effect on subjective cognitive decline, analyzed data from 4,744 adults […]

A new smartphone application could help memory care professionals diagnose and therefore treat dementia sooner, New research, led by the University of California San Francisco and recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), showed that a specially designed app could detect early signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in people who were genetically […]

Willow Valley Communities is continuing to grow with a new memory care community, and the organization’s leaders are taking inspiration for the project from a famous memory care model in The Netherlands. Even in recent years amid pandemic challenges, Willow Valley and its development company, Willow Valley Development Corp., continued planning on multiple projects to […]