Guest article by Lisa Hoffman, Executive Director, Pathstones by Phoebe; and Amanda Young, Director, BeWell @ Home The United States has a greater number of individuals older than 65 years old than ever before, with the fastest-growing segment being the 85-and-older...
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Pay Attention to These 3 Health & Wellness Senior Living Trends as Consumer Preferences Continue to Shift
By Karen Adams, Vice President of Market Intelligence Perhaps nothing in recent memory has accelerated a change in the lifestyles and preferences of older adults more than the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that we’re in a new (and hopefully final) phase of the virus’s grasp...
The Momentum Behind Not-for-Profit Sponsorship Transitions
Guest article by Stephen Johnson, Managing Director, Senior Living Finance, Ziegler We know that across the past decade, more than 900 not-for-profit senior living communities have changed hands. This includes not-for-profit senior living mergers, acquisitions and...
Joint Ventures & Partnerships to Advance Growth Opportunities
Guest article by Lisa McCracken, Director, Senior Living Research and Development, Ziegler The 2020 LeadingAge Ziegler 200 publication reported that 34% of the largest not-for-profit senior living and care organizations are in a formal joint venture of some kind. The...
In Search of the Fountain of Youth
How fully integrated health and wellness programs can be a key differentiator for Life Plan Communities Guest article by Tom Mann, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Moorings Park — This article is a supplement for our webinar, “Integrated Wellness and...
The Changing Face of Long-Term Care
Guest article by Mike Kivov, Partner at OnePoint Partners --- This article is a primer and supplement for our upcoming webinar, "Integrated Wellness and Prevention: Repositioning Life Plan Communities to Provide What Consumers Really Want," on Thursday, August 5....
Are Autonomous Vehicles in Your Life Plan Community’s Future?
By Karen Adams, VP of Market Intelligence Self-driving or autonomous vehicles, which could extend independence for older people beyond when they might otherwise need to stop driving, could offer a great deal of convenience to both residents and community operators....
Culture: The Only Way to Fill Your Buildings
Guest article by Denise Boudreau-Scott, President at Drive We’ll call her “Nancy from HR.” There’s one in every organization . . . oftentimes ignored, frequently thought of as a kook. Her musings about organizational culture being the crux of the problem when it comes...
Tapping into Pent-Up Demand for Senior Living
Marketing During COVID-19: Spring 2021 Update By Lisa Pearre, Principal and Chief Client Services Officer, and Amy Brodie, Vice President of Client Services After more than a year of locking down, masking up and hoping to navigate as few virus cases as possible,...
Strategic Planning for Higher Levels of Care in the Shadow of a Pandemic
Guest article by Brad Paulis, ASA, FCA, MAAA, Partner; and Chris Borcik, FSA, FCA, MAAA, Principal, at Continuing Care Actuaries Much of 2020 and early 2021 was a constant struggle of assessing the latest information and reacting as quickly as possible to answer the...
Do I Stay or Do I Leave? Using Data Science to Decrease Employee Turnover in Senior Living
Guest article by Dr. Jacquelyn Kung, CEO, Activated Insights COVID-19 has exacerbated our industry's employee turnover challenges. As annual employee turnover averages a staggering 80 percent across U.S. senior living operators (up from 65 percent before COVID), we...
4 Innovative Financing Strategies for Life Plan Communities to Create Operational Cashflow During COVID-19
By Melissa Messina, SVP at HJ Sims With how unpredictable the last year has been, it would be foolish to believe that we can reasonably predict what will happen in the next five years as it relates to Life Plan Community financing and capital markets as a whole....












