Transactions & Financings: Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust, BMO Harris

Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust Snatches Up Oregon Community Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust, a public, non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management, has for $92 million acquired Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, a 286-unit senior housing community in Portland, Oregon. Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust plans to break […]

6 Tips for Building a Data-Driven Memory Care Dining Program

Without significant medical advances, the year 2050 will see the number of people with Alzheimer’s double from today’s level, reaching nearly 14 million. The total number of dementia patients across the globe could triple during that timeframe, hitting 152 million. And no one agrees how to feed them. In interviews for a new report from […]

Join Senior Living Culinary Pros for DISHED 2019

Missed the 2018 DISHED event? Look at the video highlights from the event, then take this opportunity to ward off any impending feelings of FOMO by requesting an invite for the 2019 DISHED event hosted by Senior Housing News (SHN) on March 7, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Join over 100 culinary professionals in senior living next […]

Movers & Shakers: Brookdale Senior Living, Lifespace Communities, Sodexo

Movers & Shakers is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Job Board. Browse and apply to management and executive senior living jobs and positions from leading professional firms serving the industry. Employers can post single jobs, purchase job packages or our premium subscription that includes unlimited job posts and editorial coverage for one year. […]

How to Create ‘Ratatouille Moments’ in Memory Care Dining

A surly restaurant critic takes a bite of the French vegetable dish called ratatouille and his heart melts, as he is transported back to eating his mother’s version in his childhood. This is a climactic moment of the animated film “Ratatouille,” and it’s the kind of dining experience that chefs around the world aspire to […]

Focus on 5 Senses Drives Better Senior Living Design, Operations 

Though many older adults experience some kind of sensory impairment as they age, the problem doesn’t stop with vision and hearing. Taste, smell and touch can also dull as people age, but not every senior living community takes that into account. With that in mind, providers could do much more to help design “sense-sensitive” environments for […]

Movers & Shakers: Asbury Communities, Dominion Senior Living

Asbury Communities, Sodexo Hire Key Players in Joint Business Development Plan Asbury Communities, Inc. and Sodexo recently announced a joint business development plan in an effort to identify and develop services that will provide exceptional lifestyle opportunities for older adults. As part of the agreement, the two companies announced that Sandra Hegelein Lawson will serve […]