A surly restaurant critic takes a bite of the French vegetable dish called ratatouille and his heart melts, as he is transported back to eating his mother’s version in his childhood. This is a climactic moment of the animated film “Ratatouille,” and it’s the kind of dining experience that chefs around the world aspire to […]
Lynn Peel didn’t just want a small house-style memory care community —she wanted a small house. That’s why the standalone memory care community she runs, The Mooring on Foreside, in Cumberland Foreside, Maine, has only 12 residents. “The number 12 was really important,” Peel, founder and principal, tells Senior Housing News. “It gave us the opportunity to […]
In senior living, it’s inevitable that some architecture and design features go from hot to not. Resident preferences change, care practices evolve, technology advances, and the way senior housing buildings look and feel has to keep up. So, heading into 2018, providers might want to reconsider if they think that having a bistro will set […]
Leisure Care has invested $280,000 in a new memory care program aimed at letting its residents have their perfect day. The Seattle-based senior living owner, operator and developer has rolled out the new program, Opal, at 10 of its memory care communities, with plans to implement it in seven more by year’s end. Leisure Care currently […]
Allegro Senior Living is using a modest, three-building acquisition to do some bigger things: enter a new state and launch a new brand, Alto Senior Living. Prior to this acquisition, St. Louis-based Allegro operated 14 senior living buildings, with 12 in Florida and one each in Kentucky and Missouri. Most of these are large properties […]
It’s right there in Beverly Patnaik’s title. Patnaik is the director of staff training and community education at Nashville-based Abe’s Garden, so it’s no surprise that she is helping her community build a video series that educates caregivers and family members on dementia care. What is surprising is the considerable funding Abe’s Garden has received […]
The woman with the long grey hair, sweet smile, and Brooklyn moxie played one final piano flourish and turned to the crowd at The Sheridan at Green Oaks, receiving applause and thanks. A group of about 20 memory care residents at the Senior Lifestyle facility in suburban Chicago were gathered for a concert with an opera […]
In a pair of $50 million investments announced Monday, billionaire Bill Gates is joining the fight against dementia, with a focus on Alzheimer’s. The first $50 million — which Gates announced on his blog — will go to Dementia Discovery Fund to help “diversify the clinical pipeline and identify new targets for treatment.” The second […]
LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) will stick with its troubled tenant, Anthem Memory Care—at least for now. The Westlake Village, California-based real estate investment trust (REIT) recently signed a forbearance agreement with Anthem, under which it won’t pursue enforcement related to its default through the end of the year so long as Anthem pays a minimum rent […]
Another U.S. senior living provider is drawing on dementia care concepts from abroad. Chicago-based Pathway to Living announced on Thursday that its new assisted living and memory care community, Aspired Living of Westmont, set to open later this month in Westmont, Illinois, will be the first senior housing community in the U.S. to offer an alternative […]
