Category: Housing & Care
UnSenior “Seniors Housing”
Earlier this month I toured The Stories at Congressional Plaza, a new type of “seniors housing” project designed to appeal to seniors as well as those of other ages looking for a high-tech, high-service environment in an urban mixed use setting. The Stories opened in February 2016 and is a joint effort of Federal Realty…
Confessions of a Recent CCRC Mover
The question I most encounter when speaking with friends, family members and acquaintances about seniors housing is: How do you get a reluctant family member of advanced age living alone to agree to move to seniors housing? It doesn’t seem to matter if the family member is 79 or 99, there is still a strong…
Beware Of Observation Status At Hospitals
The Affordable Care Act includes a number of measures intended to rein in unnecessary or wasteful spending by Medicare. These are generally grouped under the label “value-based purchasing”. One key element of value-based purchasing are penalties for hospitals that have high levels of readmissions after discharge that went into effect in 2012. …
Finding Happiness In Senior Housing
Three things came together to spark this blog: A January 17, 2015 New York Times article entitled “Mean Girls in the Retirement Home” (http://nyti.ms/1KStZ4j), A 2014 study by the American Seniors Housing Association (seniorshousing.org) entitled Unlocking the Mystery Behind Very Satisfied Independent Living Customers – Make Them “Feel at Home” and A dinner conversation with…
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…
Technology In Seniors Housing
Stereotypes view anyone over 50 as barely able to keep up with technology and unable to use smartphones, Skype or Netflix. But technology already plays an important role in the lives of many seniors, even those over 75. It is reshaping the ways seniors live and interact in their homes and within senior housing communities.…