A recent Washington Post investigation highlighting elopements among residents with memory care needs may be missing the forest for the trees, including the relative safety of communal living versus people with dementia residing in single-family homes. That is the opinion of Andrew Carle, a longtime senior living innovator, adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University and former […]
A longtime senior living innovator and Georgetown University adjunct faculty member is touting a new memory care design undertaken at a life plan community in Virginia as a next-generation vision for the industry. The community earlier this year unveiled a new approach involving technology and physical renovations that amounted to creating a “first-of-its-kind” memory care […]
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 […]
Buildings designed to promote wellness, ambitious urban communities, clusters of small homes created with cutting-edge tech — and even senior living at sea. These are among the ideas shaping the future of senior living development, as revealed earlier this year at Senior Housing News’ inaugural BUILD event. With the Fourth of July fast approaching, we’re […]
While it’s no secret that universities and senior living organizations can and do work together, challenges such as slow development timelines, mismatching priorities and miscommunication can make executing on these partnerships easier said than done. However big the challenges are, the opportunity for the senior living industry is even bigger, senior living consultant and adjunct […]
If senior living providers want to work with universities, they’re going to have to offer something of value — but they should ask for something in return, too. That’s according to Andrew Carle, a senior living consultant and former COO of Affinity Living. Carle knows a thing or two about senior living and academia, as […]
While it’s clear that baby boomers are on the cusp of aging into senior housing en masse, the lifestyle choices they’ll make and the living options they’ll prefer remain somewhat of a mystery. A new resource could help answer these questions. The “Living Environments” map — made in collaboration with AgingWell Hub and a wide […]
Several senior living companies are trying to take a page from the hotel industry’s playbook, offering a greater variety of service packages and price points. This process is being hastened by converging trends in technology and retail, according to one expert. “I’m a big believer that senior housing is going to be unbundled the way […]
While a majority of boomers hope to stay in their homes and remain independent as they age, only 21% of them are planning to incorporate technology solutions or remodel and retrofit their homes to make doing so possible. This technology innovation gap is widening for a population that will nearly double to 83.7 million by […]
