Covid-19 continues to adversely affect senior housing occupancy, which reached another record low in the third quarter of 2020, according to data released by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). The average occupancy rate across NIC’s 31 primary markets fell to 82.1% – a 2.6 percentage point decline from the second […]
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“We won’t go back to the way we were. The new normal will not be the old normal.” These words were spoken last week by Beth Mace, chief economist at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). But, it was a sentiment that many people have been expressing over the past month, […]
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged senior living providers like perhaps never before — but it’s also given them a chance to reinvent the way they’re recruiting and retaining employees. Put another way, the pandemic and all of its pressures have acted almost as an “unscheduled audit,” according to Lilly Donohue, CEO of Winter Park, Florida-based […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the integration of senior living communities within the broader U.S. health care system, which has opened new business opportunities but also increases the likelihood of federal regulations for assisted living. “I think it’s inevitable that we’re going to start to see a regulatory framework at the federal level,” Anne Tumlinson, […]
While for-profit senior living providers are still expanding at a much more rapid pace, nonprofits are continuing to gain scale and sophistication in the midst of Covid-19, and are strategizing about how best to compete and command market share coming out of the pandemic. The “optimum” nonprofit senior living system of the future likely will […]
A majority of senior living professionals believe that the Covid-19 pandemic will result in permanently higher operating expenses. That’s according to the 2020 Seniors Housing Investor Sentiment Survey from National Real Estate Investor and the National Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). This year’s survey garnered responses from 167 participants from a range of […]
Senior housing occupancy rates last month fell at their fastest pace since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Assisted living occupancy, notably, fell 170 basis points to 82.9%, according to the latest intra-quarterly report from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care’s (NIC) NIC MAP data service. That is near a record […]
The average occupancy rate for senior housing properties fell to 84.9% as the industry was in the grip of Covid-19 in the second quarter of 2020. That was a 2.8 percentage point decline from the first quarter, representing the sharpest quarterly decline since the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) began tracking […]
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When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the United States, it inflicted swift and dramatic damage on the U.S. economy as a whole and the senior living industry specifically — but there were hopes of a similarly quick, sharp recovery. Now, those hopes for a “V-shaped” dip and rise have dimmed, and economists and senior living […]