Hiring and retaining good employees was already one of seniors housing operators’ top challenges before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Despite the many new problems that the outbreak presented, many in the seniors housing industry saw a potential silver lining: With
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For more than a year, seniors housing operators have battled rising vacancy, pressure on net operating income and uncertainty about the future as potential residents steered clear from property tours and lease commitments. Those difficulties have created a tough financing
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DALLAS — Seniors housing has shown strong resilience to the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the vast majority of operators reporting pent-up investment demand and positive leasing trends in the first half of 2021, according to the CBRE
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Private-pay seniors housing occupancy remained flat in the second quarter of 2021, holding at 78.7 percent, according to new NIC MAP data, powered by NIC MAP Vision. Though COVID-19 cases in senior living properties dropped significantly in the last quarter, occupancy has not turned
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), a D.C.-based organization representing more than 14,000 nursing homes, assisted living communities and other long-term care facilities across the country, has released a survey that
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IRVING, Texas — Greystone, a senior living consulting firm based in Irving, has partnered with LeadingAge, the association of nonprofit providers of aging services, to provide a portal for member stories to be gathered, organized and published across multiple media
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) has reported that occupancy across its portfolio has increased for three straight months, signaling a start to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Occupancy at the end of each month rose
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The seniors housing industry has been through the wringer as a result of the pandemic, setting and then resetting its own record-low occupancy rates as expenses increased for infection control, staffing and construction materials. However, many in the industry are
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By Sarah Daniels Planning ahead is never easy, but in the world of senior living construction, acquisitions and renovations, it makes everything that follows easier — and often more cost effective in the long term. The need to future-proof seniors housing
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CHICAGO — Fifty-one percent of senior housing properties experienced no COVID-19 deaths in 2020, according to an analysis by NORC at the University of Chicago via a grant provided by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC).
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CHICAGO — Although the seniors housing industry still faces many challenges, long-term demand still has the sector on a trajectory of growth. That’s according to JLL Valuation Advisory’s fourth annual Seniors Housing Investor Survey and Outlook, released last week. Construction
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), a D.C.-based advocacy organization for the seniors housing industry, has announced the 2021 inductees to the Senior Living Hall of Fame: Carl Campbell of CAMLU, Robert and William Thomas of Senior
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By Fahad Aziz, Chief Technology Officer, Caremerge “Incidents” in assisted living and memory care communities aren’t always one-off falls. They can be key indicators of a developing health pattern or wider community risk. Late-night wandering could be an early sign
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Seniors housing technology has long been focused on health and safety — keeping residents safe from falls, managing medicines and addressing health changes that require a doctor’s oversight. But the future of seniors housing may lie more in the direction
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Development activity in the seniors housing sector has slowed greatly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. New construction as a percentage of existing inventory fell from a high of 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 to 4.9
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BALTIMORE — CFG Bank (CFGB), a Baltimore-based lender, has launched the Jack and Nancy Dwyer Workforce Development Program. The non-profit organization seeks to help resolve the effects of systemic poverty and inequality and help fix the turnover crisis and burnout
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The seniors housing industry has had a rough ride through the COVID-19 pandemic. First-quarter occupancy clocked in at a record-low 78.8 percent, a drop of 870 basis points from the year prior, according to NIC MAP Data, Powered by NIC
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Private-pay seniors housing occupancy in the United States reached a record low of 78.8 percent in the first quarter of 2021, falling 180 basis points from the last quarter of 2020 and 870 basis points from a
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Concerns about real estate distress have primarily focused on retail and hospitality properties, both of which have most visibly borne the brunt of COVID-19 state and local lockdowns. Yet, arguably, seniors housing has suffered just as severe a blow, say
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OSWEGO, N.Y. — Lument has provided $8.3 million in HUD financing for Gardens of Morningstar, a 106-unit assisted living community in Oswego, located along Lake Ontario north of Syracuse. The transaction represents a refinancing via the FHA Sec. 232/223(f) program.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Occupancy at U.S. skilled nursing facilities in December 2020 reached its lowest level since data have been collected, ending the year at 71.7 percent, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). The
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) has released a report showing nursing homes in the U.S. have seen the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since the Centers for Medicare &
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Health Care Association (AHCA), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the country, and LeadingAge, the association of more than 5,000 aging services providers including nursing homes, have set a nationwide
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Seniors housing investors may be switching from development to acquisitions in the near term, as highly motivated sellers seek to unload existing properties at a lower price than the cost of building a new community. The prospect of highly motivated
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Amid the uncertainty of 2020, multifamily real estate portfolios as a whole outperformed expectations. However, seniors housing faced unique operational challenges during a pandemic that has been particularly devastating to older populations. The government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie
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A smarter tech strategy requires a future-flexible network. By Deanna MacCormac, Corning Optical Communications Telehealth, resident tablet programs, touchless building automation, reliable high-speed Internet, campus-wide communications, remote-monitoring, wearables, sanitation robots — all of these technologies are becoming an important part
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Seniors housing construction has continued during the COVID-19 pandemic — but perhaps not on the developers’ original timelines. “We have seen just about every obstacle thrown at us, from government shutdowns to disruptions in the supply chain to subcontractors contracting
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