The memory care portion of a larger assisted living community in Florida managed by The Goodman Group has officially reopened after a multi-million dollar renovation and expansion. Pearl Essence, which opened in 2009, is designed exclusively for women with memory impairments and is part of Cypress Palms, an enhanced assisted living community that opened in […]
Category: Memory Care
CBS 60 Minutes recently aired a two-part series on “Living to 90 and Beyond” that explores an ongoing study of the nation’s oldest old and the growing threat of dementia in this population. “We are a nation getting older,” the segment begins, “… it’s giving us more time—literally—to start to lose our minds.” Dementia and […]
A nonprofit California senior living organization is testing new technologies geared toward caring for those with cognitive impairments by piloting new programs in its memory care communities. The Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing is part of a family of companies that includes Front Porch Communities and Services, which has 10 retirement communities and two […]
Senior living foodservice bears many similarities to what you might find in any other organized form of dining—or in some cases, exactly what you might find in a restaurant. But there’s one distinct challenge found among senior living providers when it comes to planning and delivering meals to some of the clientele: food that can […]
Virtual “dementia tours” being offered by senior living provider Senior Star are giving caregivers and family members of those with dementia the opportunity to experience the effects of the struggles that come with dementia. The new program being offered at Senior Star at Elmore Place in Davenport, Iowa, is working to help people understand what […]
From co-housing to niche communities and the Village Model, today’s retirees have many, many options, writes author Beth Baker in a Forbes column this week. The emphasis is on community, she says, and the rising number of nontraditional options that are making waves. “I started to see news articles about The Village Model and then […]
A California senior living resort developer and management company is betting big on expanding within the state, with nearly 10 projects under way or coming on line within a year’s time. Oakmont Senior Living has announced the construction of what will be its eighth and ninth communities in Northern California, for a total of 13 […]
On the heels of the announcement they will be merging in a deal slated to close in the third quarter of 2014, Brookdale Senior Living and Emeritus were ranked as the two largest senior living providers by capacity, respectively, by the Assisted Living Federation of America. In its annual ranking of senior living providers by […]
Although women comprise the majority of memory care community residents, new data analyzed by A Place for Mom shows than men are more likely to go to a community designated for memory care rather than for assisted living. There are proportionately more men at memory care communities than at assisted living communities, says a recent […]
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