The U.S. senior housing penetration rate has hovered around 10% over the last decade, but there’s been wide variability across different metropolitan areas. It’s difficult to pinpoint why the rate varies so much from city to city, and gaining a greater understanding of what drives Read More »
Movers & Shakers: Integral Senior Living, HumanGood, Erickson Living
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Rigid Managers, ‘Pathetically Poor’ Storytelling Harm Senior Living Staffing Efforts
Senior living providers need to reject top-down management approaches and be bolder in how they appeal to prospective workers to overcome increasingly steep recruitment and retention challenges. This was a key message shared by industry executives Thursday at the 2018 Senior Housing News Summit in Read More »
After Slashing Turnover, HumanGood Anticipates More Firepower From Employee Engagement Partner
Nonprofit senior living provider HumanGood credits better employee engagement with driving down nursing turnover 36% and dining staff turnover by 48% between 2014 and 2016. The Pleasanton, California-based provider worked with employee engagement firm Brand Integrity to achieve these results. Now, Brand Integrity—which has a Read More »
Transactions & Financings: Blue Moon’s JV, PMRG to Merge with Madison Marquette
PMRG in Talks to Merge with Madison Marquette Texas-based PMRG, a privately held commercial real estate firm specializing in property management, project leasing investment management and development services, and Washington, D.C.-based Madison Marquette, a privately held commercial real estate investment and operating company, are in Read More »
Movers & Shakers: Legend Senior Living CEO Named Argentum Board Chairman
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HumanGood CEO Envisions Innovation at Every Price Point
HumanGood has gained industry attention for its plans to reinvent the continuing care retirement community (CCRC), but the large nonprofit provider has even grander ambitions when it comes to senior living innovation. This year, it plans to hire an executive to focus on its wide-ranging Read More »
Senior Living Tries to Capture Magic of Brands Like Virgin
In rebranding, a number of senior living organizations are beginning to employ a strategy used by iconic brands like Virgin. Specifically, it’s very on-trend for companies, no matter their industry, to choose a new name that’s aspirational as opposed to descriptive, Geoff Cook, partner at international strategy, Read More »
How Active Adult Housing is Becoming Independent Living ‘Light’
If retirement begins at 55, independent living is three decades late. While independent living (IL) is loosely considered the start of the senior living care continuum, experts agree that most people are not entering IL until their 70s at the earliest, according to a new Read More »
Movers & Shakers: Lancaster Pollard, Lifespace Communities
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