Sometimes solving challenges in the memory care sector can feel like climbing Mount Everest—just ask Anthem Memory Care CEO Isaac Scott. Like climbing the famous summit, memory care operators have quite a climb ahead of them, in several ways. One big one is the remainder of this year, which will be a test of operational […]
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Memory care demand is expected to grow in the years ahead – but operators must evolve for the future if they hope to see it. To help attract new residents in the months and years ahead, operators are both focusing on the real estate and the knowledge of treating cognitive decline. That is resulting in […]
A hormone found in the brain of every human could be used as a treatment to delay the proliferation of Alzheimer’s in its early stages. Researchers with the University of Dundee in Scotland found that a small part of an appetite-suppressing hormone known as leptin could reduce the effects of the two harmful proteins in […]
Cedarhurst Senior Living is expanding its memory care programming while creating a new dementia care-focused training program to improve service to older adults living with cognitive decline. Regional directors began overseeing life enrichment departments at its communities, and developed a new memory care training program based on evidence-based dementia research. The four-hour intensive training program […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A recent study has linked personality traits with overall dementia risk. The effort could help researchers more broadly understand whether certain kinds of people are more likely to develop the disease over time. Funded by the National Institute on Aging, the study found that conscientiousness, extraversion and positive affect were associated with a lower risk […]
Over one in three people worldwide are affected by neurological conditions, which remain the leading cause of illness and disability across the globe. Dementia is among the top-10 neurological conditions contributing to “loss of health” in 2021, along with stroke, neonatal encephalopathy, autism spectrum disorder, nervous system cancers and more, a recent World Health Organization […]