Month: July 2015

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…