Category: Development
Development
PopularThe Claim: Private Equity Is Destroying Senior Living
The theme is not new: that when private equity, REITs, and other for-profit entities purchase senior living communities, particular nursing homes, quality of care goes to hell.
Read MorePeople and Money: Profit and Trust
It’s easy to forget that customer value is the key to growth and, ironically, profit maximization. Especially for a trust business like senior living.
Read MoreWho Will Be the Hoka of Senior Living?
We need a Hoka of senior living. Someone to create a senior living community, experience that every single senior living operator would want to live in.
Read MoreNIC 2024 — Is Senior Living Missing the Boat?
My overarching impression is that we as an industry are still trying to figure out what is important to us, to society — and that we have a long way to go.
Read MoreHow We Can Win the Senior Living Game
What would take to make senior living more desirable to more people? When we make living in senior living better than living at home.
Read MoreDon’t Be Afraid to Be Stupid
No one wants to say, “I’ve got a mess.” And yet having the courage to do just that is the only way to get unstuck.
Read MoreThe Capital You Need
The real question you face is how to find the right partners to work with. The 2024 NIC Spring Conference is the best place to find that next great match.
Read MoreThe Wrong Focus Can Crush You
My question for you: Where are you trapped in your organization? What do you need to do to break through that trap?
Read MoreLess-Than-Perfect Senior Living
There are lots of little things that make senior living less good than it could be, leaving an impression of mediocrity or worse.
Read MoreIf It Were Child Care …
We should be as outraged as the people commenting on the article are. But I am not sure I have seen any industry outrage at all.
Read MoreHow Bickford Senior Living Saved $4.5 Million
If you’re still battling with paper and spreadsheets or apps that are clunky to run, take a page from Justin’s book, “Look at the ROI. It’s insane!”
Read MoreIgnorant Elder Care Trash Talk From the NYT and KFF Health News
It was an article more designed to get clicks than to provide an accurate assessment of the current state of elder care or to provide solutions.
Read MoreOur Roller-Coaster Lives: Learning From Sam
While the OpenAI board was clashing over nonprofit values, LinkedIn hosted a conversation about a similar question for senior living.
Read MoreSenior Living’s Split Personality
Are we health care or a lifestyle product? When capital invests in senior living, are they investing in real estate or a business op?
Read MoreThese Numbers Shocked Me …
It will likely need massive retooling of how we think about older people, how we spend government money, and adequate housing for older people.
Read MoreCould It Be This Stupidly Simple?
The only thing that should matter is the customer experience. This is true for vendor companies, and this is true for senior living.
Read MoreOur Messed Up Belief, Part 1
If we were to survey the American public, most people would say that senior living is the place you go when you have run out of other options.
Read MoreBrookdale’s Pathetic Performance
Isn’t it time for better living? Isn’t it time for a home where people want to live, instead of one where they have to live after they’re put away?
Read MoreAn Intriguing Experiment: Follow the Money
The intriguing experiment with which we began shows that Kaiser could be more solidly committed to its mission “to provide … affordable health care … ”
Read MoreImagination Run Wild: Could This Be Our Future?
We list here 10 bold ideas that might give aging senior living facilities a new life and might also transform how Americans live in the process.
Read MoreReimagining Senior Living as Better Living
The image could be a more vibrant, vital concept to broaden the market. We can achieve that by appealing to younger people wanting convenience.
Read MorePrivate Equity Destroys
The problem is that they don’t take the time to get to know the business, the business culture, or the industry.
Read MoreThe Plusses of Profit
Does a nonprofit senior living enterprise offer consumer or business advantages over for-profits? That is a question that is seldom asked …
Read MoreIs the Future Happening Now? Cohousing?
If the market begins to shift toward a grassroots cohousing concept, the question for CCRCs will be whether they can adapt.
Read MoreText a Friend Right Now and So Much More
What we rarely ever talk about is the connection factor for senior living leaders. We all assume that everyone has enough friends.
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