Senior living nonprofits must learn to cope with industry disruption soon — or communities could become places that people would prefer to avoid. “If we’re not able to move forward, we risk becoming sort of like the outhouse: functional, workable, but not your first choice,” said Steve Jeffrey, chief strategy and innovation officer for Garden […]
One non-profit developer, owner and operator of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) is betting that more seniors will flock to the urban high-rise model of senior living, especially if there’s a university affiliation involved. Medford, Oregon-based Pacific Retirement Services (PRS) is moving full steam ahead with its plan to open Mirabella-branded senior living high-rises in […]
One of the nation’s largest not-for-profit senior living providers, Acts Retirement-Life Communities, will be extending its reach into a new region through an affiliation with another not-for-profit provider, Integrace. The two organizations announced the planned affiliation on Monday. The affiliation is set to close on May 1, 2019. Based in West Point, Pennsylvania, Acts operated […]
Ecumen, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit senior housing and services providers, has named Shelley Kendrick as CEO and president, effective Feb. 4. Kendrick joined Ecumen in 2012 as vice president of operations and currently is COO. She succeeds Kathryn Roberts, who has been CEO since 2003. Roberts indicated to Ecumen’s board last year that […]
Asbury Communities, one of the largest non-profit senior housing providers in the nation, has been making headlines recently—and the news has been good. A July 8 Washington Post article highlighted that Asbury Methodist Village, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has become the first retirement community in the Washington, D.C.-area to be […]
A nonprofit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is hoping to soon provide services to the approximately 60,000 local seniors who live outside of its walls, through a new Institute on Aging. Saint John’s on the Lake in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is establishing the institute, spurred by an initial commitment of $500,000 from the Saint John’s Foundation. The goal of […]
As part of a recently devised strategic plan, Kendal at Home is starting to become more integrated into the continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) of Kendal Corp., one of the largest non-profit senior housing operators in the nation. Founded in 2003, Kendal at Home was an early example of a “CCRC Without Walls” program, in […]
Iowa-based Lifespace Communities, Inc. and Texas-based Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation (SQLC) may soon join forces to become the fifth-largest not-for-profit senior housing provider in the United States. The two nonprofit senior housing providers announced on Wednesday that they have entered into a non-binding letter of intent for a proposed affiliation. The companies expect that the […]
Hot off the heels of a years-long, company-wide growth spurt, senior services nonprofit Transforming Age isn’t done growing and changing—not by a long shot, according to President and CEO Torsten Hirche. “We want to change the world. We want to continue to make a huge impact,” Hirche told Senior Housing News. Transforming Age—formerly known as Presbyterian […]
Though some senior living providers must focus solely on higher wages or robust benefits to attract and retain top industry talent, that’s not the case at Presby’s Inspired Life. The Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit, which has four senior living communities and more than 30 affordable housing properties in and around the greater Philadelphia area, recently reported that […]