Tag: 2013.

Senior housing is not an island unto itself. . .  Skilled nursing is heavily dependent on the Federal Medicaid and Medicare programs.  Much of the senior independent living inventory is targeted at low income seniors and dependent on various government funding sources for both development capital and on-going economic viability.  Assisted living, at first glance, seems rather immune to the uncertainties of government policy except that government policy has a huge impact on the general economic health of the country.