When residents move into a senior living community, they typically get a warm welcome — but the same can’t always be said for employees. Instead of getting flowers, a gift box or a welcoming committee, employees are sometimes tossed into the deep end without enough training or onboarding. And this is a big reason why […]
2Life Communities President and CEO Amy Schectman knows too well how easy it is for middle-income older adults to fall between the cracks. That’s why she and 2Life have come up with a new senior housing concept aimed at filling the middle-market “abyss.” The concept, called Opus, is meant to reduce senior housing rates […]
2Life Communities President and CEO Amy Schectman still remembers the tearful phone calls. Desperate family members would phone Schectman crying, and relay an all-too-familiar problem: their loved ones earned slightly too much to qualify for true affordable senior housing, but not enough to afford living in market-rate communities. In the senior living industry, this group […]
Andrew Carle has spent a long time in senior living, from working alongside Granger Cobb at Summerville Senior Living in the 1990s to now working as an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University and as executive director of The Virginian, a CCRC in Fairfax, Virginia, managed by Life Care Services. From Carle’s perspective, the industry is […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the senior living industry’s strengths and weaknesses. This moment in time provides an opportunity to change how the industry works — but it also poses a risk for companies that are too slow to adapt. Just ask Andrew Carle, who has worked in myriad roles throughout the industry, from […]
Florida is the current epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., but that has not translated into a lingering occupancy loss for Westminster Communities of Florida. In fact, the organization is maintaining an occupancy rate at around 91% amid those challenges. CEO Terry Rogers says the key to the organization’s ability to maintain stable […]
Florida is the current epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic — but Westminster Communities of Florida has maintained an occupancy rate of around 91% despite those challenges. The reason why, according to CEO Terry Rogers, is that the organization’s communities are safer than the cities where they’re located thanks to higher vaccination rates among the organization’s […]
Garden Spot Communities CEO Steve Lindsey wants to push senior housing to its next evolution — and he believes the answer doesn’t only lie with older adults. Instead, Lindsey seeks to build a truly intergenerational model of urban senior living where people of all ages and walks of life share the same space and interact […]
The senior living industry has put much time and energy into coming up with a housing model to serve the next generation of older adults. But for Garden Spot Communities CEO Steve Lindsey, the answer doesn’t only lie with older adults. Instead, the organization is exploring ways to create community for people from all walks […]
It’s been a big summer for Pathway to Living. The Chicago-based senior living operator is nearly doubling its portfolio under a $97 million transaction with real estate investment trust Welltower. CEO Jerry Finis believes the new relationship could help fuel more growth for Pathway in the future — and that buyers with access to large […]
