Wildfires sweeping across Northern California have led to mass evacuations, with seniors among more than 20,000 people who fled their homes—thousands of which have been destroyed. It’s likely that some of these displaced older adults will now decide to live in a senior housing community, either on a temporary or permanent basis. Sunshine Retirement Living […]
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Happy Monday, Senior Housing News readers! Manzano del Sol Village, a senior living community in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is missing its 115-year-old tortoise, Diablo. Nobody is more distraught about this than Delilah, a 90-year-old female tortoise and Diablo’s life partner, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Luckily, it’s unlikely that Diablo has “a wandering eye and took off […]
Baby boomers are bringing new expectations to senior living—including a distaste for isolated, rural communities. Nowadays, walkable, urban neighborhoods and proximity to transportation are high priorities for prospective senior living residents, according to a recent survey report from A Place for Mom. The Seattle-based senior care referral service asked nearly 1,000 senior living consumers about their living preferences […]
While real estate companies like Redfin and Zillow compile local real estate listings and prices for homebuyers, a similar search function is lacking for seniors and their families seeking assisted living options, creating a disparity—and sticker shock—between the price they expect to pay versus its actual cost, according to research conducted by A Place for […]
Happy Monday, Senior Housing News readers! Last week was a short one—and, let’s face it, you probably didn’t spend your Fourth of July catching up on the latest news. Luckily, we’ve got you covered. Here’s all of last week’s must-read news you may have missed: A Place for Mom is being sold for an undisclosed […]
It’s the end of an era for A Place for Mom (APFM). The company’s previous investor, Warburg Pincus, is selling the senior living referral service for an undisclosed price to global growth equity firm General Atlantic and technology investment firm Silver Lake, both of which will own equal stakes in the Seattle-based company once the […]
Happy Monday! This past week was a busy one for the senior housing industry. Catch up on our most-read news before this week’s news starts piling up: Holiday Retirement announced it is moving its headquarters from Lake Oswego, Oregon, to Winter Park, Florida—and impacting about 200 jobs in the process. A Georgia-based senior living provider’s […]
The general public may think the cost of health care—and, by extension, the cost of senior living—is rapidly increasing, but that’s not true. In fact, senior living costs are rising at a slower rate than health insurance premiums, hospital service costs and recent home sale prices, according to the 2017 National Senior Living Cost Index from Seattle-based […]
All the senior housing listings on referral website A Place for Mom (APFM) soon will also appear on SeniorHousingNet.com, under the terms of a new agreement. Seattle-based APFM has entered into a strategic relationship with Move, Inc., the parent company of SeniorHousingNet.com, the companies confirmed to Senior Housing News on Monday. The new content-sharing agreement will add […]
When it comes to assessing public safety, future senior living residents aren’t necessarily experts. In fact, there are plenty of misconceptions among prospective senior living residents and their families about which U.S. cities are actually safe, according to A Place for Mom Data Scientist Ben Hanowell. With a new report, the Seattle-based senior living referral […]
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