April 9, 2013 Kristin D. Zeit, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Design
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With more than 180 million elders and growing, China is being forced to reconsider its senior care environments. Architects and designers are challenged to create facilities that best meet senior needs while respecting cultural expectations.
April 9, 2013 Charlene Marietti, Executive Director, Editorial Initiatives
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Presbyterian Senior Living in York, Pa. operates an integrated retirement community that combines market rate with affordable housing.
April 9, 2013 Charlene Marietti, Executive Director, Editorial Initiatives
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Designing and building for an aging population is the same as designing and building for the general population, but with more considerations, more variations and more restrictions
April 8, 2013 Charlene Marietti
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Professionals change their thinking on long-term care to focus on creating communities that serve the human needs of an aging population.
April 2, 2013 Patricia Sheehan, Editor-in-Chief
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Margaret Wylde, PhD, president and CEO, ProMatura, has her fingers firmly on the pulse of the booming 55+ demographic. She spoke with Long-Term Living Editor-in-Chief Patricia Sheehan in advance of her keynote address at the Environments for Aging conference, to be held April 6-9 in New Orleans.
March 20, 2013 National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry
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While the skilled nursing care national occupancy continues to be stable, there has been variation in the trends among the individual metropolitan markets during the past year.
March 15, 2013 Leslie G. Moldow FAIA, LEED AP
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Boomers seek diversity and innovation in their pursuit of the perfect aging-in-place setting. The good news is senior living providers can develop more options, think more innovatively and create more diverse market niches than ever before.
March 14, 2013 Anne DiNardo, Senior Editor, Healthcare Design
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How is senior-centric care changing the way hospitals are designed? Anne DiNardo, senior editor of our sister-publication Healthcare Design, asks two design experts about the impacts of geriatric care on the rest of the care chain in this sneak-peek of what attendees will learn at our Environments for Aging conference next month.
February 20, 2013 National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry
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Nursing care occupancy rose for the second consecutive quarter, although it remains near its cyclical low. During the fourth quarter of 2012, nursing care occupancy was 88.1 percent, which was a 10 basis point increase from the prior quarter but a 10 basis points decline from a year ago.
February 12, 2013 Charla Worsham, registered interior designer
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Harnessing the energy of interior spaces can change an institutional building into a home. An interior designer takes a look at the power of light, variety and focus points to create peace and comfort within the care environment.
February 5, 2013 Randy Bremhorst and Chad Ulman, AIA, LEED AP
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As the long-term care industry takes on more business in short-term rehabilitation and new expectations from the baby boomer generation, many facilities are finding themselves forced to renovate their buildings and their operations to keep up with the market changes.
January 14, 2013 National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry
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As of the fourth quarter of 2012, units under construction in assisted living properties equated to 3.0 percent of the existing assisted living inventory within the top 31 metropolitan markets. Construction activity has been oscillating for more than a year, but has clearly moved past the lows established in 2009.
