Month: July 2015
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Repositioning Older Assisted Living Properties
Background With NIC-MAP data starting to report an upturn in senior housing development activity, many older senior housing properties are or can soon be expected to face a more competitive market for new residents. Senior housing, and particularly purpose built assisted living and memory care, are relatively young industries and most early assisted living…
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Layman’s Guide To Post Acute Care
I had a conversation with a friend today who has a relative that is comatose after a surgical procedure. The patient has recently been shifted from a feeding tube though the nose to one connected to the stomach and is about to be transitioned from oxygen through a breathing tube to a ventilator connected directly…
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Relationships Key to Happiness In Retirement & Seniors Housing
I spent a recent weekend on the Rhode Island shore with a eight friends I have known for over 40 years and several of their spouses/significant others. We try to get together every two or three years and it is amazing how quickly we are able to reconnect and how reminiscences we have all been…