A new $1.9 million grant to address a rural senior care shortage in Minnesota aims to attract students to the field of senior living before they graduate. Ecumen, a non-profit senior housing provider that operates in many rural Minnesota communities, and the statewide system of Minnesota State College and Universities (MnSCU) are collaborating to introduce […]
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Looking for a senior housing job? We’ve got you covered, bringing you job postings from some of the top senior housing employers in the country. Open positions include director of nursing/memory support at Senior Star Management, junior appraiser at CBRE, Inc., executive director at Brandywine Senior Living and more. Are you a senior living […]
Senior Housing News wrote them, you read them and passed them along to your friends and colleagues. Here are the most shared posts from SHN this week: Philly Low-Income LGBT Seniors Housing Sets National Bar—A new, affordable senior housing community in Philadelphia may soon inspire the development of similar models nationwide considering its lesbian, gay, […]
Construction: Planned Ohio Senior Living Community Plans $20 Million Expansion Otterbein Senior LIfestyle Choices is planning a $20 million expansion to add more housing to its continuing care retirement community (CCRC) campus in Lebanon, Ohio, reports Dayton Business Journal. The project will create 83 independent living units across 20 new buildings, among them will be 17 […]
While many aspects of senior living have made recent strides, from dining services to interior design, one relative newcomer is targeting a specific aspect of senior living that many communities share, but often is not the first target for new resources: the salon. Launched in 2008 through a partnership between two co-founders — John Polatz, […]
Baby boomers are continuing to look beyond traditional retirement settings to places that will better suit their active lifestyles in their post-career days, Fox Business writes. And they’re finding them in college towns. A slowly rebounding economy is helping more retirees view cities as a viable and exciting alternative for their retirement years, previous reports show. […]
Nearly a year to the date after its launch, Google’s life sciences arm Calico is gearing up to begin developing new technologies for the aging population with the launch of a new partnership that will create a $1.5 billion aging research center. The Google-backed company, which launched in September 2013, recently announced a research and […]
A new Philadelphia-based building that caters to low-income seniors in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community may soon inspire similar models nationwide. The John C. Anderson apartments, a six-story building that opened recently in Center City, Philadelphia, has attracted residents from across the country, including Florida and New York, The Washington Post reports in […]
Mainstreet Names 5 New Staff Members to Join Growing Team Carmel, Indiana-based Mainstreet, the nation’s largest developer of post-acute health care properties, has announced five new members will join its team. Michael Klingl has joined Mainstreet as a development director. Klingl most recently worked for GreenbergFarrow in Chicago, where he served as a senior development manager for more […]
Despite senior living communities’ ongoing efforts to improve their outreach and marketing campaigns, the fundamental basics of their marketing strategies are still seen largely as flawed. Mystery shops completed by students in senior housing administration at George Mason University show that assisted living communities’ sales staff overwhelmingly fail to ask the right questions and provide the necessary […]
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