Editor’s Note: Below is an interview with six senior living executives who will be speaking at the 2025 BUILD-BRAIN conference in Dallas, Texas. Hear more insights like these during our two-day event. Tickets are available here. Memory care operators are quickly evolving to meet changing resident needs. Unpacking that statement, they are embracing innovative hybrid […]
Willow Valley Communities
Change is afoot at Willow Valley Communities. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based senior living operator has several next-generation projects underway, including an urban high-rise development and memory care project. In downtown Lancaster, Willow Valley is planning a high-rise development known as Mosaic that will span 20 floors and will offer future residents multiple options, including 16 floorplans […]
Senior living nonprofit Willow Valley Communities has appointed Lisa Hawthorne as its new president and CEO. The move is effective June 9, according to a press release. Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based Willow Valley selected Hawthorne for “her outstanding leadership, deep industry experience and clear vision for the future of senior living” following a nationwide search to fill […]
By: Courtney Ryan For the last few years, the senior living industry has faced high construction costs and financing hurdles, slowing the development of new projects and communities. The memory care sector has been no exception. In the past, many operators would use each new community as a new blueprint for evolution or innovation. Given […]
This article is part of your SHN+ subscription Editor’s note: The upcoming Senior Housing News ReBUILD conference will feature many more great insights into the development landscape. Check out the agenda and purchase tickets here. While the pulse of senior living development may have slowed in the last four years, recent plans and projects underway […]
Adapting and exporting the Dutch Hogeweyk model to the U.S. is no easy feat. But one of the largest memory care operators in the U.S. is currently forging ahead with a new concept that emulates the famous community. The operator, Lutheran Senior Services (LSS), runs the Meramec Bluffs Senior Living community in St. Louis, Missouri. […]
By Sloane Airey The idea of creating memory care villages gets a lot of ink – but not too many bricks. Ever since the opening of the memory care village “Hogeweyk” in Weesp, Netherlands, there has been no shortage of news coverage about how operators in the U.S. could learn from it and potentially adapt […]
Willow Valley Communities is continuing to grow with a new memory care community, and the organization’s leaders are taking inspiration for the project from a famous memory care model in The Netherlands. Even in recent years amid pandemic challenges, Willow Valley and its development company, Willow Valley Development Corp., continued planning on multiple projects to […]
High acuity senior living could continue to see strong demand based on favorable demographic shifts, and operators will keep evolving to meet the changing consumer dynamic in the years ahead. From building outwards with future growth via acquisition or through ground-up development, organizations are moving forward on a range of higher-acuity senior living models. What […]
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