Tag: private-pay seniors housing
My Wife and I Have Moved To A Life-Plan Retirement Community
My last post on the Robust Retirement blog was over six months ago. 2023 was a challenging year for my wife, Carol, and me. We each had to deal with serious health issues, while also serving as each other’s primary care giver. In the fall of 2023, we decided we should move to a senior…
Photos of Life Plan Communities in Baltimore
In my November 9, 2023 webcast for the Maryland Association for Parkinson’s Support (MAPS) I discuss Life Plan Communities (LPCs) as a housing option for Parkinson’s patients. LPCs were preciously called continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). The industry changed the terminology used to describe these communities to emphasize the lifestyle they offer, rather than their…
Types of Senior Housing and Terminology
The slides below are background for my November 9, 2023 webcast for the Maryland Association for Parkinson’s Support on selecting a Life Plan Community for Parkinson’s patients in Baltimore.
LINK TO WEBINAR ON UNDERSTANDING SENIOR HOUSING & CARE OPTIONS – SELECTING A LIFE-PLAN COMMUNITY IN BALTIMORE
On January 9, 17 and 23, 2023, Beth Am synagogue sponsored a 3-session webinar on senior housing and care options and selecting a Life-Plan Community in Baltimore. I led the webinar and was assisted in its preparation and presentation by Becky Bees, Marketing Director of Roland Park Place (RPP), the only Life-Plan Community in the…
Finding Happiness In A Senior Housing Community
This post updates one I originally published in 2015 that uses data from a study of nearly 6,900 seniors mostly living in independent living community or an IL unit within a larger, multi-level Life Plan Community. While the study was designed to guide senior housing developers and operators, I use the study results to guide…
Convert Colleges to Senior Hsg. Enrollment Declines Create New Opportunities
I have written three times before on this blog about augmenting college finances and declining enrollment by introducing senior housing on campus or by fully converting small college campuses into senior housing communities. The first time was February 2, 2019, in response to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about the challenges facing…
Are Baby Boomers Now Ready for Seniors Housing?
I am 72. I graduated college 50 years ago and am a quintessential baby boomer. I studied seniors housing and care as a real estate market and stock analyst for more than 20 years. I spent several years raising capital and advising companies in the seniors housing and care space and served on the board…
Reusing Suburban Corporate Headquarters As CCRCs
I had lunch yesterday with Robert Kramer, Founder and Strategic Advisor of the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry (NIC). In the course of our conversation, Bob mentioned that National Development and Epoch Senior Living were proposing to develop 130 units of upscale senior housing on the former headquarters of…
Slow 80+ Pop Growth, Elevated Construction Spark Concern For Seniors Housing
Cited In Senior Care Investor Podcast I am republishing this blog post, originally issued in December, 2015, because it was recently cited in a podcast by Steve Monroe, Editor of Senior Care Investor, a well regarded industry newsletter, as being prescient about predicting issues being faced by senior housing and care facilities today. Background I have been…
Immigration and Senior Caregiving Linked
It has been several months since I updated my blog because I have gotten busy serving on the Board of Quality Care Properties (QCP) and with some consulting work. I am also just back from a vacation in Costa Rica about which I hope to soon do a post. An article in today’s (January…