Tract housing. You know the concept . . . identical houses. The lyricist called them “ticky tacky.” This new version may be the future.

“Boomers want healthcare to be ‘behind the walls’ rather than in the front.” Can senior living give them what they want?

Change can seem radical when it’s not. It only seems radical because it’s unfamiliar. Can senior living break out of its comfort zone?

Kendal and the San Francisco Zen Center are teaming up to create a truly unique senior living environment.

Alternatives to today’s senior living are coming fast. Will prospects view senior living the way many in the industry do?

Would you move to a hassle-free “dwelling” where you belong, where you fit in, and where you know you’re home?

A few days ago I got a chance to talk to John Moore, the CEO of Atria, about the merger. Here is why he is convinced this is the right move.

I confess that I want like crazy for this to work. Because we need a breakout, huge senior living company to make it work.

Chip Conley of Modern Elder Academy discusses what regenerative living looks like and how it works in the community he’s developing.

Are entrance fees a prepayment of future services or more like a down payment on a home? Some residents are starting to wonder.

A nonprofit developer focusing on creating below-market-rate housing for low-income people. Could this be used in senior living?

The history of how we came to live as we did in the 20th century is germane for imagining how we will choose to live in the 21st century.

With a $300 billion opportunity for the caregiving market in the U.S. in coming years, Mexico is preparing for its own silver tsunami.

Those people with the vision, gumption, energy, and access to capital to lead change will be those who inherit the future.

I can see this model blowing a hole in traditional independent living. Senior living needs to be paying attention . . .

Today, there is less emphasis on responding to consumers than there is on sales and marketing. Is a change coming?

If any senior living organization or REIT adopted this strategy in the coming months, they would become the dominant player in the coming years.

I am finding myself wondering if nursing homes need to go the way of shopping malls, Blackberrys, fax machines, and electric typewriters.

With today’s design, approval, & construction timelines, investors have to be patient before they see any ROI. That time lag is costly.

More and more senior living providers seem to be looking seriously at offering clinical primary care onsite in their communities.

It would seem logical that “The Best Places to Retire” and the best place for senior living should have some correlation, maybe even the same thing?

What industries might have access to the needed capital and stand to benefit from acting as a disrupter of age-segregated housing?

Life in the 21st is more harried with two-income families, remote work, childcare, and aging parents. There’s opportunity in these developments.

It’s a seldom mentioned truth that senior living is one of the few industries that is still allowed to discriminate. Is that changing?