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• Study: Private-Pay Nursing Home Census Falls as Assisted Living Sector Grows

  
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  Seniors have multiple housing and care options available to them in various stages of existence, whether they’re emerging, developing, or have been around for some time. Considering this, it’s not surprising to learn that as assisted living has grown and evolved in the past two decades, it has had a “modest but ...
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• Senior Housing Finance Activity: HFF, Ventas, Oak Grove Capital, & More

  
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  Everest Real Estate Advisors Closes $12 Million Loan for Minn. Senior Housing Community Everest Real Estate Advisors, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., recently closed on a $12 million refinancing loan for Select Senior Living, a 90-bed senior housing facility in Coon Rapids, Minn., reports Real estate Journals ...
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• Instability in Healthcare Payment System Can Wreck Innovative Coordination Efforts

  
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  As healthcare reform begins to take effect, many care providers—including those in the senior care industry—are looking for innovative ways to improve care quality and reduce costs by coordinating care, but if Medicare payments remain unstable, it could prevent those efforts, according to post-acute care provider ...
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• Forbes: Will Adult Children be Forced to Pay Parents’ Nursing Home Bills?

  
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  The adult son of a former nursing home resident has been determined responsible for paying his mother’s $93,000 bill by a Pennsylvania appeals court, reports Forbes , and this might be the beginning of a new trend.  Pennsylvania is one of 30 states that have filial responsibility statutes—laws that impose a ...
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• How Do Caregivers Get Summer Vacation?

  
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  Advanced preparations and planning will be necessary, but all the effort is worthwhile in order for caregivers to take a true vacation.
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• In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (5/23/2012)

  
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  Construction: Planned Eastern Consolidated is marketing a 51.65-acre fully entitled development site in Brookhaven Long Island for $15 million, reports the National Real Estate Investor . The site includes approved plans for constructing a 408-unit senior housing project, Heritage Square Housing Development. The ...
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• Affordable Senior Housing Option MEDCottage Makes Its Grand Debut, First Unit Placed

  
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  One of the latest innovations in affordable senior housing made its grand debut on Tuesday, May 22 when the first MEDCottage unit was placed in a Virginia family’s backyard. “Today, as 78 million baby boomers prepare for their senior years—potentially straining nursing homes and government-funded healthcare ...
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• Dads Journey: Another Day, Another Issue

  
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  Leaving the nursing home last night, I cried for the first time as I drove home. It was not a good visit with my Dad. What awaits us today is anybodys guess.  I believe he is in his third week at this facility, exactly how long I cant remember. Along with my fathers deterioration, my mind has also declined. ...
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• The Daughter Trap by Laurel Kennedy

  
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  Claudine Paul Taking Care of Mom and Dad...and You Are you a victim of inherited senior care? Author Laurel Kennedy addresses this very topic in the book " The Daughter Trap ." Claudine1003@yahoo.com ...
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• CMS Fails to Use All Tools to Combat Home Healthcare Fraud

  
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  Home health care fraud has made national headlines recently with multi-million-dollar fraud busts having taken place in Dallas and the Miami area in the past several months. A hearing held in late April before the Senate Finance Committee addressed the issue and brought a new—albeit old—potential solution to ...
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• Finding a Senior Living Community That Fits

  
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  Making a decision about assisted living or any other type of senior living community is a multifaceted one. Consider all the angles.
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• Updated Guide “Demystifies” Financing Options for Nonprofit Senior Living Providers

  
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  As America’s older population grows, so does the demand for affordable senior housing—especially following the economic downturn. Considering nonprofit providers’ need to access capital at a reasonable cost in order to supply an increasingly necessary commodity, Lancaster Pollard recently updated its ...
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• Study: Senior Care Telemonitoring Doesn’t Reduce Hospitalizations

  
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  Several governments in countries around the world are experimenting with mobile healthcare technology, including remote monitoring for seniors, but a new study found that among older patients, telemonitoring did not result in fewer hospitalizations or emergency department visits. In fact, the study showed that ...
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• Turnaround Corner—Troubled or Closing Senior Care Facilities

  
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  Here’s a list of possible turnaround opportunities for senior care facilities, ranging from troubled facilities that have lost or may lose Medicare/Medicaid licensing, to ones that have been shut down by the state, to places that plan to close their doors voluntarily for various reasons. This edition also includes ...
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• Residence Care NJ

  
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  Home care is a expression that is applied to mention to supporting or health care that is given to a patient at his or her house by qualified healthcare personnel. Home care can come in two different types. One of the categories of home care is custodial care or non-medical care which denotes to care provided by ...
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• State Watch—Long-Term Care News from Around the Nation (5/21/2012)

  
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  As assisted living regulations evolve and tighten, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements fluctuate, and healthcare reform begins to take effect, many states are facing their own challenges as they continue to develop, operate, and implement new rules and programs. Here is a collection of long-term care related stories ...
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• LTC Properties Acquires Land in Co., Plans to Build Memory Care Community

  
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  LTC Properties, Inc. (NYSE:LTC), a real estate investment trust that primarily invests in long-term care facilities, recently acquired a vacant 3.16 acre plot of land in the Denver area of Colorado for $1.9 million, with plans to build a senior care community. Simultaneous with the land purchase, LTC entered into a ...
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• Pets Welcome in More Senior Living Communities

  
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  Recognizing the far-reaching benefits, more senior living providers are allowing pets to accompany residents.
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• Elder Care Owner like Angel Here on Earth

  
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  As the sounds of a guitar and melodious singing drift through the house, three elderly ladies lounge in a sun room reminiscing about times long past. Smiles on their faces, they blissfully enjoy the tunes from the time of their youth, at a home here in Londonderry, NH, thanks to Here on Earth. Guests at Here on ...
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• On the Record: Steven Insoft, CFO & COO of Aviv REIT

  
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  While publicly traded healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) like HCP, Inc., Ventas, Inc., and Health Care REIT Inc. grab a lot of headlines, privately traded ones like Aviv REIT often seem to fly under the radar. But as Senior Housing News recently discovered after speaking with Aviv’s Steven Insoft, who ...
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