SENIOR LIVING JOURNAL
Retirement Communities
New Senior Living community takes a very localized approach to design
Ecumen’s new senior housing community in Worthington, Minn., uniquely honors the area’s agricultural heritage. It is likely the only senior housing in America that features seed and livestock feed ...
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Residents with Memory Impairment Cruise to the Past at Encinitas Car Show
Poodle skirts, sock hop music and colorful cars with tail fins and wooden side panels will fill the parking lot of the Silverado Senior Living - Encinitas community for its third annual Cruisin' Cl...
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New Lifestyle Programs for Senior Residents at The Terraces of Roseville
Mary Murphy, Executive Director of The Terraces of Roseville (CA), is excited about the new lifestyle programs the community offers its residents. "The 'Live Your Way' Wellness Program supports a h...
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Senior Living Provider Classic Residence by Hyatt Changes Name to “Vi”
Classic Residence by Hyatt, a leading national developer, owner and manager of quality senior living communities, has unveiled its new company brand name, Vi (pronounced VEE). The company’s portfol...
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Leading Atlanta Retirement Community, Parc at Buckhead, Hires Premier Executive Chef
Parc Communities, a leader in Atlanta retirement communities with four metro-Atlanta independent living communities, announces the hiring of premier Executive Chef Johnathan Metellus. Parc prides i...
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NewBridge on the Charles Gives New Meaning to “Cottage Living”
The Cottage Community at NewBridge on the Charles, the state-of-the-art continuing care retirement community (CCRC) from Hebrew SeniorLife, gives a new meaning to “Cottage Living,” offering residen...
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Highly-Anticipated Del Webb Community in Houston to Begin Construction in Early Fall
Del Webb, the leading builder of active adult communities in the nation, has announced a timeline for the grand opening of the first Del Webb community in Houston.
The community, target...
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Makeover for Retirement Cottages and Memory Care Expansion at Lakeview Senior Living
Lakeview Senior Living, a Westmont Living premier retirement community, located in Lincoln City, OR, has announced the availability of newly renovated retirement living cottages. Also completed was...
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Silverado Senior Living Service Club: Shattering Alzheimer's Stereotypes
Holding food drives for the homeless. Knitting blankets and hats for needy newborns. While these volunteer activities aren't uncommon, the people involved in them are. Each has Alzheimer's disease ...
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Vistamor 'Going Green' with New Plan Focused on Amenities and Open Space
There's a new look to Vistamor, an active adult community under way in Orange County, NY, where the focus is on vacation-style living with exciting recreational amenities including a spectacular Cl...
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CantaMia, Environmentally Friendly Active Adult Community, Opens in Arizona
The public appears to like the song that CantaMia is singing. The new active adult community in the Goodyear, AZ, master planned community of Estrella has attracted thousands of visitors since its ...
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Aegis Living Teams Up With Mariners For a Salute to Grandparents Day
Aegis Living is celebrating a Grandparents Day with the Seattle Mariners on June 6th against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
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Silverado Senior Living 'Chief Pet Officer' Proves Dogs are Execs' Best Colleague
From the early stages of planning his company 15 years ago to now, with his organization employing over 2,000 people in four states, Silverado Senior Living President, CEO and Board Chairman Loren ...
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Village at Proprietors Green Opens on South Shore, Introducing Innovative Senior Living to Boston Area
Village at Proprietors Green, a luxury senior rental community, has opened in Marshfield, Massachusetts, with 40 percent of its independent living apartment homes reserved. The flexibility of renta...
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The Stayton at Museum Way to Open in Fort Worth in 2011
Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation (SQLC), a Texas-based nonprofit developer of senior living communities, announces that financing has been completed for its latest project, The Stayton at Muse...
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Excellence in Green Affordable Senior Housing
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) and MetLife Foundation recently recognized the winners of the 2009 MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing at the annual meeti...
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Retirement Communities Lead Way in Real Estate Turnaround
Retirees have decided it’s time to make a move in the real estate market. With both the stock market and home sales heading upward, Soleil Laurel Canyon, an active adult community north of Atlanta,...
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The Future of Senior Living Communities
Older adults who anticipate moving to a senior living community can look forward to maintaining their independence through "smart home" technology and wireless connectivity, according to a recent s...
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The Heritage of Green Hills Celebrates Grand Opening
The Heritage of Green Hills, a full-service retirement community in Pennsylvania, recently celebrated its grand opening with The Heritage of Hollywood, a cinema-themed gala featuring the sights and...
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Nine Reasons Aging in Place May Not Be Right for You
Age in place. It sounds so warm and fuzzy that most people entering their retirement years say that's exactly what they would like to do. It seems like an easy choice. But it's really one of life's...
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Varenna Wins NAHB Gold Award
When it opened its doors to seniors in 2008, Aegis Living's Santa Rosa community, Varenna, was immediately recognized as a hallmark in the best of senior living. Now that acknowledgment is expandin...
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Active Adult Buyers Are Moving to New Jersey's Covington Village
Due to 2008's housing downturn, an increasing number of 55+ adults are now in search of cozy condominium communities rather than large, oversized single-family homes. Not only are condominiums typi...
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Colonial Heritage Information Center Has Grand Opening
Lennar, one of the nation’s leading homebuilders, celebrated the Grand Opening of their Colonial Heritage Information Center with a ribbon cutting ceremony and presentation
The Colonial Herit...
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Are You Ready To Rightsize Your Life?
Wyndham Homes has responded to the trend toward smaller homes for thriftier seniors, by putting their own award winning signature on a not so big house. Using their trademark Flexibuild System, Wyn...
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Growing Numbers of Baby Boomers Head to Age-Restricted Communities
Most Baby Boomers, like their parents, are choosing to “age in place,” but a large and growing number – more than 1.2 million households – are choosing to move to communities designed to meet their...
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Classic Residence by Hyatt Goes Wireless
MobileAccess, the global provider of enterprise wireless solutions, and Technology Plus, Inc., a design and consulting firm for building technology, have been selected by Classic Residence by Hyatt...
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Gerontechnology Consortium of Westchester Wins 2009 MetLife Foundation MindAlert Award
The American Society on Aging, in collaboration with the MetLife Foundation, has announced that the Gerontechnology Consortium of Westchester won the MindAlert Award in the category for programs de...
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Aegis of Bellevue to Open Early 2010
Aegis Living, a national leader in senior living and assisted living communities, is answering the call to make senior communities better places to live by building a community in a prime location ...
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Retirement Communities May Benefit from Silver Lining in Economic Downturn
According to a recent national survey of Coldwell Banker® real estate professionals, over half of those who work in popular retirement areas are seeing younger retirees (ages 60 and under) looking ...
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New Senior Rental Development to Provide Affordable Housing in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood
Jeffrey A. Raday, President of McShane Construction Company, has announced the construction of the new five-story, 70,000 square foot Casa Maravilla senior living complex. The residential facility ...
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Parc Communities Announces Homecare Services for Its Residents
Parc Communities has introduced homecare services designed to help enrich Parc residents' lives and maintain the highest possible quality of independent living. As needs arise, Parc residents are a...
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Abington at Tradition breaks ground in Port St. Lucie, Florida
Abingdon at Tradition, a master-planned, full-service retirement community developed by Senior Living Communities, will kickoff construction in Port St. Lucie on July 31 and is expected to open mid...
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United Hebrew Geriatric Center New Nursing Home Scheduled to Open at End of Year
United Hebrew Geriatric Center (UHGC), a multi-service senior living campus in New Rochelle, NY, has announced that the construction of its new nursing home, the Lucile and Joseph Skalet Pavilion, ...
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The Villages Ranks as Fastest Growing Micropolitan Area in the Nation
The Villages, the largest single-site mixed-use development in the U.S., earned the No.1 ranking as the fastest growing micropolitan area in the nation according to a recently released Census Burea...
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Varenna Translates Resort Living Into Everyday Senior Living
Residents have begun moving into Varenna, the new resort-style senior living community developed by Oakmont Senior Living and professionally managed by AegisLiving. With its rolling vineyards, whis...
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More than 90 Percent of Senior Living Residents Express Satisfaction with Their Community
Senior living residents are overwhelmingly satisfied with their senior care communities, according to a poll of randomly selected residents from 409 different communities across the country release...
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The Woods at Newtown Breaks Ground on 178 Homes in one 55+ Community
Nestled in a 50 acre woodland setting on Mount Pleasant Road (Route 6) in Newtown, Connecticut, The Woods is a luxury 55 community of 132 clubhouse condominiums in nine buildings with covered parki...
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Home Sale Program Helps Seniors
One consequence of the slow housing market? People who want to move to a retirement community but can't because of the difficulty in selling their house.
University Village Thousand Oaks,...
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Meadowbrook Pointe Adult Lifestyle Community Hosts Grand Opening, May 17-18
Meadowbrook Pointe active adult lifestyle community in Westbury, NY, has introduced new, fully furnished models, to be showcased at the official grand opening on May 17-18. And, for those who can't...
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Vienna Square's grand opening in Winter Haven scheduled for June
Vienna Square, CRF Communities' newest gated, Florida retirement community, is being built right in the heart of Winter Haven. Vienna Square features 180 spacious two-bedroom, two-bath villas with ...
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Ground Breaking Slated For New Active Adult Community in Houston
Caldwell Companies has announced that the clubhouse within The Heritage at Towne Lake development is slated to break ground May 5. The state-of-the art facility will serve as the centerpiece of the...
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Sunrise Opens First Senior Living Residence in Quebec
Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. has opened Sunrise of Dollard-des-Ormeaux located in the West Island of Montreal. The new senior living community is Sunrise's first in the province of Quebec and its th...
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Los Angeles Jewish Home Unveils Auerbach Behavioral Health Center for Adults Over 55
The nonprofit Los Angeles Jewish Home has opened the Lisa and Ernest Auerbach Behavioral Health Center to serve adults 55 and over who are experiencing mental or emotional changes that require inte...
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84% of Americans Over 50 Expect a Family Member to Move into an Assisted Living Community Within the Next 10 Years
Eighty-four percent of Americans over the age of 50 expect an immediate family member to move into a senior living community within the next 10 years, while 24 percent over the age of 65 expect the...
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Sunrise to Open New Senior Living Community in Salt Lake City Area
Sunrise Senior Living will open its newest community, Sunrise at Holladay, at the end of April. Sunrise at Holladay, the Company's third community in Utah, will be the first Sunrise community in th...
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Del Webb building first Houston community
Construction is officially underway for Houston's first Del Webb active adult community. An official VIP ceremony was held in Richmond to formally break ground on the community in Fort Bend County....
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Successful Aging: Moving beyond bricks and mortar to create vital, successful aging communities
(PRWEB) Aging services provider Ecumen, one of the country's largest non-profit senior housing companies, has released a new whitepaper on a key ingredient to success in senior housing and...
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Brookdale Senior Living Keeps Loved Ones Informed During Severe Weather with Web Site Link
With severe weather affecting many parts of the U.S., Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is using the technology of the internet to keep family and loved ones informed of weather-related issues at any of...
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Prepare your Home For Sale Early to Keep Retirement Options Open and Expenses Down
Patience may be a virtue -- but for seniors planning to downsize from a family home to a Continuing Care Retirement Community, there's a fine line between being patient and waiting too long.
"We a...
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The Importance of Fire Safety at Nursing Homes
(ARA) - When you start the search for a nursing home or residential care facility for a loved one, what do you look for? A clean environment and a caring staff? A track record for high-quality care...
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