NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Owner and operator Charter Senior Living has announced a new strategic partnership with LifeLoop, a senior living technology company. Illinois-based Charter, which has a portfolio of 72 senior living communities, has deployed a LifeLoop resident engagement solution to support its Flourish Memory Care program for adults with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Charter communities now use the 1N2L by LifeLoop solution, which offers cognitive care content and programming with more than 7,000 curated experiences. “LifeLoop enables our community teams to deliver personalized enrichment programming at a scale …
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Webinar: 2025 Seniors Housing Investment Outlook — Where Is Deal Velocity Now and Where Is It Headed?
The June 17 webinar “2025 Seniors Housing Investment Outlook — Where Is Deal Velocity Now and Where Is It Headed?” sponsored by CBRE, convened a powerhouse panel of executives from across the investment, development, lending and operating landscape. The session delivered candid insights on the seniors housing market’s shifting terrain as panelists discussed capital market dynamics, operational challenges and forward-looking investment and development strategies. The webinar addressed critical questions facing the seniors housing sector as we move into the second half of 2025: Who’s investing? What capital is available? How …
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How to Leverage TV to Improve Operating Margins, Resident Experiences
After seniors housing occupancy experienced a dramatic slump during the pandemic lockdowns and a plodding recovery, demand for senior living is now as strong as ever. However, financial pressures such as rising labor, healthcare and insurance costs continue to plague the industry, and experts don’t expect much relief from these factors in the near future. Against that backdrop, seniors housing owners and operators are seeking innovative ways to balance their budgets via new revenue sources without compromising the resident experience. One solution that can satisfy those criteria incorporates a technology …
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Two-Way Audio-Visual Systems Offer Innovative, Reassuring Solutions for Elevator Emergencies
Elevators are something that most people take for granted until there’s a problem. Senior living residents may face various communication difficulties that can make elevators, and related emergencies, especially difficult to navigate. Hearing loss, vision impairments, difficulty speaking, confusion and anxiety can intensify the impact of mechanical malfunctions, medical emergencies or situations where residents become disoriented and unsure of their surroundings. When dealing with these problems in a senior living setting, where residents are often in more vulnerable conditions, there is a heightened sense of urgency. Having both eyes and …
Senior living communities can benefit from the same platforms serving seniors and their caregivers in the home setting. Aging adults often require assistance to sustain their safety and well-being long before they enter a seniors housing community. Over time, this may advance to needs in the realm of care, companionship, and support for most activities of daily life including shopping, transportation to appointments, finding products and services and more. Studies have shown that adult children of seniors may provide as many as 24 hours per week of care in addition …
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How Ambient Sensing Technology Transforms Resident Wellness
New tools are helping seniors housing providers detect fall risks early, giving them an edge in prevention while preserving residents’ privacy and dignity. This technology is part of a new frontier in healthcare: tracking and identifying changes in behavior earlier and earlier while providing tailored alerts and wellness insights to improve outcomes. “We are always looking for opportunities to reduce falls and maintain, or improve, the overall health and wellbeing of our residents,” says Mark Mountel, director of technology at Life Enriching Communities (LEC). The not-for-profit owner and operator of …
By Erez Cohen, August Health In collaboration with the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), August Health recently published a survey of clinical leaders from senior living operators across the nation. The report included findings on gaps in clinical reporting, strategies for fall reduction, and new care models and technologies. One recurring theme though, was that of the challenges around staffing — hiring, retaining, training and improving the quality of senior living professionals. It is unsurprising that clinical leaders report so many issues around staffing. Caregivers face an environment that can be stressful, …
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De-Risking Elevator Emergencies: Why Senior Living Facilities Need Modern Elevator Communication Solutions
Any property owner knows the headaches that arise when an elevator malfunctions. In senior living facilities, such problems have the potential to escalate into a crisis very quickly. Emergency communications in senior care facilities are vitally important, not only to protect the health and safety of residents and visitors but also to minimize disruptions to staffing resources. If there is an emergency, that call has to go somewhere. In senior living facilities, that destination is often the nursing station. “We consistently hear about nursing shortages, with staff being pulled in …
How are you using technology to lower expenses, increase revenue or otherwise improve profit margins? Tracking equals success By Bennett Porson, Chief Financial Officer, Fynn.io While our clients’ rent levels are confined to tight windows of gradual upticks, proper care scheduling, delivery and billing have proven to significantly improve their NOIs. These communities’ bottom-line improvements have been driven by effectively managing resident care and recouping care charges that would have otherwise gone undocumented and unbilled. The process begins with automated assessment-to-care plan workflows and extends to real-time actionable data. Our …
By Eric Taub There’s no other topic that has generated as much attention in the general and business press in the past year as artificial intelligence (AI). Based on the breathless coverage, one could imagine that the technology has just been invented. In actuality, it’s been around for years. AI fuels such voice recognition products as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, as well as chatbots, customer service scripting and Netflix’s viewing suggestions, among others. However, with the release of ChatGPT, awareness of AI technology has come to the masses. Today, …
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