5 Quotes That Defined Memory Care in 2024 and Signal What’s Ahead in 2025 

In 2025, memory care operators will continue to grapple with the many challenges of evolving dementia care to meet the needs of today’s senior living residents. Many opportunities remain, including demographic-driven demand entering the market as Baby Boomers begin to turn 80 along with the growing need for dementia care as cognitive needs continue to […]

How New Fitness Tech Enables Atria, Lifespace, Maplewood, Mather to Upgrade Resident Wellness

In 2025, senior living providers are continuing to find new ways of improving resident health and wellness through the use of integrating technology and fitness programming. Wellness plays a big role in senior living programming and operations, and operators are blending technology-enabled fitness equipment to improve resident health outcomes and better personalize resident care plans. […]

9 Quotes That Defined Senior Living in 2024 and Suggest What 2025 Holds

With positive momentum on occupancy and margin in 2024, the senior living industry is poised to capitalize on incoming demand — but many challenges remain. These challenges include still-tough development conditions as the supply and demand gap widened this year, which led to investors and developers in the space mostly shying away from rapid new […]

Senior Living Industry Makes Some Progress on LGBTQ+ Inclusion, But Much More Action Needed

Editor’s note: WTWH Healthcare is pleased to announce the inaugural Prism Awards, honoring individuals and organizations that have demonstrated exemplary achievements in the areas of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB); Environmental Sustainability; and Social Stewardship. The deadline for award submissions is Nov. 30. Senior living operators must do much more than pay lip service […]

Omega CEO: Maplewood Still Improving as Inspir Slowly Gains Occupancy

With its financial restructuring long in the rearview mirror and a new Inspir property soon to open in Washington, D.C., Maplewood Senior Living is on an upward operational trajectory, according to CEO Taylor Pickett. The Westport, Connecticut-based senior living operator’s Inspir community in New York City is engaged in a “slow trudge” with regard to […]

Senior Living Giant Atria to Shut Down Its Home Care Business

Atria Senior Living, one of the largest U.S. senior living providers, is closing down its home care business. The home care arm of Atria exclusively serves New York state, including Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. Atria initially acquired this home care business in 2007 as part of a larger acquisition, […]

Omega CEO: Occupancy Rising at Maplewood’s Inspir Property in New York City

Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) leadership sees a runway for occupancy growth ahead for Maplewood Senior Living’s New York City luxury community. During Friday’s second-quarter earnings call, Omega reported that Maplewood’s Inspir 2nd Avenue property carried an occupancy rate of 67%, up two percentage points from the fourth quarter of last year. The community, which […]

Omega CEO: Maplewood Senior Living On Firmer Ground in 2024 After Rent Challenges Last Year

Maplewood Senior Living is on more stable footing in 2024, according to executives with Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI), about a year after the operator said it was facing a “modest liquidity crunch.” Omega previously moved to restructure its Maplewood portfolio after the operator fell behind on payments last year. Under that restructuring, the Hunt […]

In the Pipeline: Maplewood Plans D.C. Opening; Westmont Living Opens Fifth San Diego Community

This content 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 Distinctive Living sub-brand plans cottages Live Well Senior Cottages, a sub-brand of Distinctive Living, recently announced […]