Over the next decade, when baby boomers finally start to age into senior housing en masse, they’ll bring with them a host of new needs and desires—and if senior living providers don’t take heed, they’re at risk of becoming obsolete. That’s because, unlike some of their predecessors, many baby boomers simply won’t be happy with “three […]
Some senior living providers are generating community buzz—and simultaneously engaging residents—by carving out a niche in the arts. Meta Housing Corporation’s developments include three senior arts colonies along with a focus on arts programming throughout its senior housing portfolio, while a Sunrise Senior Living community recently kicked off its first-ever playwriting residency through a partnership […]
The success of several niche senior living communities in and around Los Angeles is leading its developer and nonprofit partner to seek expansion opportunities beyond California. The Developer, Meta Housing, and its nonprofit partner, EngAGE, have successfully launched three California artist colonies for retirees in addition to Meta’s dozens of traditional communities, most recently with […]
As an alternative to traditional options, some Los Angeles-based retirees are finding their fit in a senior artists’ colony, reports USA Today. Citing the experience of one aging couple who was not interested in the “old fashioned traditional senior citizens living,” USA Today details the Burbank Senior Artists Colony, developed by LA-based Meta Housing, as […]
Construction: Planned Lutheran Senior Services Plans $7 Million Expansion Project Lutheran Senior Services is planning a $7 million expansion to its Meramec Bluffs senior living community in Ballwin, Mo. and has hired St. Louis-based general contractor Paric for the project. The expansion will add 31 skilled nursing beds to bring the community’s total to 119 […]
A Los Angeles-based senior living community is working to help Americans in the low-income bracket by offering a few outside-the-box solutions in senior housing. The program, the subject of a Fast Company article this week, is coined “EngAGE,” and is centered around a non-profit led by Tim Carpenter, which focuses on arts and wellness for […]
