Active Adult Consumers Come Into Sharper Focus as Boom Continues

This article is part of your SHN+ subscription The active adult boom is continuing in 2024 – and recent trends and data show it is likely to keep booming, as the property type is outperforming other types of senior housing on some key metrics. But that doesn’t mean active adult is easy to develop or […]

Inside the Biggest Challenges, Opportunities of Making Assisted Living More Affordable 

This article is part of your SHN+ subscription Affordability in senior living remains a key challenge for senior living operators, and for those who navigate the affordable housing and middle-market space, doing so requires a lean and efficient operating playbook. The affordable space within senior living includes a range of models, from Medicaid waivers for […]

In the Pipeline: CVS Health Provides $17M for Affordable Project; Sunrise Continues Renovations

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned Scott-Long Construction tapped for Sunrise Senior Living renovations Scott-Long Construction, a close partner with Sunrise […]

In the Pipeline: MorningStar Expands in California; Experience Continues Work in Colorado

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned Lennar plans active adult community in Delaware Homebuilder Lennar recently announced plans to add a […]

Blending Art and Science: How LCS, Atria, Watermark, Other Companies Tackle Regional Operations

This article is part of your SHN+ subscription Senior living operators across the U.S. are assembling their regional leadership teams and strategies in an effort akin to a high-stakes chess match or solving a complex puzzle. The challenge is that regional leaders are often in charge of driving improved performance at the communities they manage. […]

How the Intergenerational Senior Living Trend is Evolving in 2024

This article is part of your SHN+ subscription For years, senior living operators have sought to create communities with organic connections among different generations. Doing so is harder than it looks. For one, people belonging to different generations have different wants and needs. They also sometimes mingle in different spaces, or use the same spaces […]

Inside the ‘New Way’ of Senior Living Owner, Operator Alignment

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription There is a growing focus on finding alignment between the owners of senior living communities and the operators that manage them – but doing so is not always easy. Leaders of senior living real estate investment trusts (REITs) such as Ventas (NYSE: VTR) and Welltower (NYSE: WELL) […]

Shaping Senior Living’s Future with CEO Succession, External Hiring

This is part of your SHN+ subscription A new group of senior living leaders is infusing their companies with new plans and philosophies that will help chart the way forward for the senior living industry’s future health. One can look directly at recent announcements of incoming CEOs or companies making distinct succession plans to see […]