With new training and standards and accreditation through a program prioritizing wellness for people living with cognitive changes, nonprofit senior living provider Simpson Senior Services is starting a new chapter in memory care. Developed by Arizona-based senior living provider Beatitudes Campus, Comfort Matters is a research-based memory care model focusing on well-being, emotional comfort and […]
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The Woodlands Senior Living is adapting to changing conditions in assisted living and memory care in response to rising resident acuity, turning to community-based partnerships to fuel new growth and improve resident care. The Waterville, Maine-based senior living provider operates 10 assisted living and memory care communities in the Pine Tree State, along with a […]
Senior living operators are equipping staff with new tactics and tools to serve tomorrow’s memory care residents in a more personalized and skilled way in 2026. An estimated 7.2 million people 65 and older were living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2025, and that figure is expected to increase to nearly 14 million by 2060, according […]
NuCare Senior Living added 12 new communities in new markets last year. This year, the company is turning its focus to solidifying operations. That’s according to CEO Joel Moyer, a former executive with Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), Encore Senior Living and the Wisconsin Assisted Living Association who founded the operator in 2023. In 2026, […]
Nonprofit senior living operator FellowshipLife recently launched a new, voluntary genetic testing program for residents and their families aimed at identifying chronic health risk factors, including for dementia. The Personalized Genetic Wellness program is available to all residents across the nonprofit senior living provider’s network of five life plan communities in New Jersey as part […]
A Wisconsin-based nonprofit hospice, Agrace, is launching a new memory care initiative that includes a village for residents inspired by the Hogeweyk model in The Netherlands. The hospice and palliative care provider recently announced the project, which will be dubbed as the Ellen & Peter Johnson Dementia Village at Agrace. Fueled with the Johnsons’ donation […]
Memory care operators are revamping dining for their residents, pivoting away from a clinical approach and toward restaurant-style experiences. In the past, memory care dining was less resident-centered with fewer choices. Today, a growing number of operators have changed to provide a more restaurant-quality experience including new menus and service tactics geared toward wellness and […]
New research from Case Western Reserve University was recently heralded as a big step forward in the fight to not only slow but reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease. Senior living memory care experts are encouraged by the results, but that there is still much left to be done to further that goal. The study, […]
Two senior living operators are bringing about the future of memory care by building it. Among the communities pushing the boundaries in memory care is Aster Gardens by Optima Living in Alberta, Canada. The 157-unit community has six floors, with each designed to feel like “a small, intimate neighborhood,” according to Ali Shivji, principal at […]
Senior living operators hoped the GUIDE model would help them support caregivers. So far, the program hasn’t gone as well as some had wished. CMS launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model last year as an eight-year nationwide program to provide better services and support for people living with dementia and their caregivers. […]
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