What a week for New Jersey. It started with the pro football team that has its roots there winning the Super Bowl, and it’s going to end with a first-in-the-nation effort by the state’s assisted...
Satisfaction guaranteed?
By
Margaret A. Wylde, Ph.D.
Jan 25, 2013
How much time is spent providing assistance to the average assisted living resident? Are their lives at a point where “assisted living resident” is the best way to describe them?
What are the scouts saying about your long-term care organization?
By
John O'Connor
Jul 25, 2014
There is no draft in senior living, nor really a need for one. But what if its three most dominant players were to be sized up? How might the scouts rate skilled care, assisted living and home care, respectively?...
Snobbery that skilled care operators can ill afford
By
John O'Connor
Mar 06, 2017
Quite a few skilled care operators tend to look at assisted living as being not quite equal. Many on the skilled side tend to see themselves as being a bit, ahem, more qualified.
The need to drill down into seniors housing data
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 17, 2013
About a year from now, the story coming out of the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry conference will be around how operators are clutching their pearls about the decline...
Is healthcare compliance on life support?
Oct 17, 2014
Assisted living, long-term care and nursing homes — the senior living industry —is one of the most challenging and compliance-driven industries in the U.S.
A winning strategy for nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 06, 2012
Last week, I heard one of the most insightful, no-baloney talks I’ve heard in a while from a long-term care official.
SNFs and cabbies agree that more regs are needed — for the other guy
By
John O'Connor
May 16, 2016
You can gain real insights about your future by examining what the competition is up to. Remarkably, there are still some skilled care operators who don’t see assisted living as the competition....
‘American Idol’ meets assisted living
By
Liza Berger
May 28, 2010
You can call them assisted living’s “idols.” About a dozen employees of assisted living facilities auditioned and won spots to sing a song commissioned by the Assisted Living Federation...