It’s common wisdom that the more crowded a senior housing market is, the more cutthroat the tactics are among its different competitors. The recent period of oversupply has given rise to aggressive pricing tactics and stories of staff being wooed by the newest communities in town. But there are a handful of markets where there […]
Date: November 5, 2019Time: 1:00 PM CDT – 2:00 PM CDTRegister Now Who Are America’s Middle Income Seniors and How Can We Care for Them? The Forgotten Middle is a fast-growing and significant demographic group of seniors that demands attention and planning. By 2029, there will be 14.4 million middle-income seniors in the U.S., many […]
Nationwide senior housing occupancy is near a historic low, as many providers across the U.S. are grappling with oversupply. The average U.S. senior housing occupancy increased to 88% percent in the third quarter of this year, while construction versus inventory in the U.S. was 6.7%, according to data from the National Investment Center for Seniors […]
After a period of historical lows, senior housing occupancy rose on a nationwide basis in the third quarter. Average senior housing occupancy increased to 88%, up 30 basis points from the previous quarter’s 87.7% rate, according to new data from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). But as is always the […]
Imagine it’s 2025, and you’re an 81-year-old who has had a rough year. Maybe you had a surgery, or your adult child moved across the country. Maybe you lost your spouse. You’re still healthy and active but it’s time, you realize, to consider moving into an independent living community. So, you log onto Amazon. Through […]
Senior living providers could have a golden chance to acquire home health agencies early next year. Although, the opportunity is not for the faint of heart. On January 1, 2020, a new home health Medicare payment framework will take effect. Dubbed the patient-driven groupings model (PDGM), the system could overwhelm smaller home health agencies and […]
Economic trends suggest that the senior living industry should prepare for pain. Low interest rates have become the new normal and could soon go even lower, and this will continue to hurt seniors’ ability to bankroll their retirements, former Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing […]
While it’s clear the senior living industry must cater to the growing middle market of older adults over the next decade, what isn’t clear is how exactly that will occur. There are fresh ideas percolating, though. That was made evident during a “hackathon” at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) fall […]
The massive opportunity to serve the middle market has been one of the hottest senior living topics in 2019, thanks to new findings from NIC and university researchers. There is a tremendous business opportunity for providers that find a winning middle-market formula, NIC Founder and Strategic Advisor Bob Kramer explains in this episode of Transform. […]
There are are plenty of ideas circulating as senior living stakeholders search for ways to make communities for the vast middle market. But it is not yet clear which ideas will have staying power and who will take risks on untested models — particularly in terms of equity investors. And any potential middle-market product cannot […]