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Some board and care homes are giving the senior care business a bad name in their mistreatment of immigrants. There is an ugly side to immigration and low-wage workers in the senior care market. Bad people exist everywhere, and it is as difficult to keep them out of our business as it is in any […]
There may be more than 14 million boomers that will not be able to afford seniors housing plus their health care needs. It is time to address the issue. We have been saying it for years. The largest unmet need in seniors housing is the bulging middle income cohort, which some researchers have defined as […]
Active adult communities are taking on a new role in the senior living continuum, and new ones are sprouting up. Find out who is buying and selling, at what cap rates, who is developing and why, and how these communities may evolve. You have all been hearing the chatter about active adult communities, something that […]
Washington has passed its version of a long-term care insurance bill, sort of, using a payroll tax to fund it. Unlike the misconceived Class Act that was originally part of the Affordable Care Act, which was designed to rob Peter to pay Paul, Washington State has just passed its own version, The Long-Term Care Trust […]
A professor with a new book on dementia care claims a semi-private room in a “decent” nursing facility in a big city costs $240,000 per year. Hogwash. I hate it when bad information gets out there, and a professor of psychiatry and bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine should know better. Especially someone […]
Skilled nursing facilities are closing at an alarming rate, so should we be worried about a shortage of beds in 10 years? There have been a lot of reports in the media recently about skilled nursing facilities closing down, just shutting their doors, and this is not just in rural areas. Low Medicaid rates have […]
Five Star Senior Living and Seniors Housing Properties Trust announce a dramatic restructuring of their relationship, and all shareholders seem to lose, at least for now. Five months after Five Star Senior Living issued its “going concern” announcement, the financially troubled company finally came to an agreement with its landlord, Senior Housing Properties Trust, to […]
As we head to the end of the first quarter, seniors housing and care M&A activity may reach 100 transactions for the fourth consecutive quarter. I should no longer be amazed by how strong the seniors housing and care M&A market remains, given all the headwinds we hear about all the time. From the public […]
After several years of declining occupancy, operations seem to be stabilizing at the largest skilled nursing provider in the country. It has not been an easy past few years for Genesis Healthcare, or for the entire skilled nursing sector. But we always thought there would be some light at the end of the tunnel, and […]
After plunging to a low of $3.82 per share after fourth quarter earnings were released, shares of Capital Senior Living are showing some bounce. We are sure the market has noticed that the C-Suite has been buying. The price is now up 26% in less than a week. Timing is everything, and the CEO added […]