Senior Living Occupancy Trends in 2026
Senior living occupancy trends in 2025 reflect tighter supply, aging demand, labor strain, and capital discipline shaping operator strategy.
Assisted Living
Mid-Year Senior Living Update
It’s not been quite six months since I’ve taken a deep(ish) look at the state of senior housing/senior living. My last post was in December of last year Not much has changed overall in terms of occupancy trends but overall, the industry is faring better than it has since the Pandemic, yet weakness for developers … Read more
Private Equity Ownership Scrutiny
Private equity investment and ownership in healthcare businesses has been a frequent topic in the news, with coverage largely focusing on negative aspects of private equity’s involvement and engagement in this sector. Recent Legal and Regulatory Developments One notable case highlighting concerns about private equity’s role in healthcare occurred in Sacramento County. A jury awarded … Read more
Federal Assisted Living Regulatory Initiative
Last week via a member news release from Leading Age Minnesota, the specter of federalized Assisted Living regulation popped up. Per this release, legislation enabling federal assisted living regulation of some form is anticipated to be proposed by U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) prior to the year’s end. The primary outcome of what Senator Kelly … Read more
Friday Feature: Four Topics to Watch
It has been a busy week and next week is a holiday week (Thanksgiving) so of course, a shortened news and work week. That said, there is a lot going on right now and for followers and readers, I thought sharing my top four topics to watch made sense. Tort Reform: Back in February, the Georgia … Read more
Twofer Tuesday: Marketing Insights for 2025
The bifurcated title for this post (twofer) means two quick subjects, wrapped into a “what’s next” for 2025. The wrapper in this case is marketing, a subject that I’ve often written about across this blog’s dozen plus year history (hard to believe it has hung around that long). According to NIC (National Investment Center), and … Read more
Senior Living Liability Claims Analysis Report
Marsh (largest insurance broker in the world) recently released its 2024 General and Professional Liability Report 2024-General-Professional-Liability-Benchmark-Report-MAR-USA. The report includes data from fifty senior living and long-term care providers comprising 10,300 closed claims with paid indemnity and expense value of $1.87 billion across a ten-year horizon. The ten-year data was used by Marsh to forecast … Read more
Private Equity Update – Regulation
Not too long ago, I wrote a post regarding federal legislative activity seeking to impose regulation on Private Equity firms investing in senior living organizations (SNFs, home health, hospice, assisted living). That post is available here: https://rhislop3.com/2024/06/13/private-equity-investment-in-nursing-home-sector-generates-regulatory-scrutiny/ That post focused on a bill known as the Corporate Crimes Against Health Care Act of 2024 aims … Read more
Senior Housing and Care M&A at Record Level
Mergers and acquisitions activity in the seniors housing and care sector set a new quarterly record with 183 publicly announced transactions in the second quarter of 2024, as reported by LevinPro LTC. This represents a 21% increase over the 151 transactions from the first quarter of 2024, and a 49% rise compared to the 123 … Read more
Arbitration Agreements: AZ Atty. General Seeks to End Secrecy Provisions
Arizona’s Attorney General, Kris Mayes, is challenging a major nursing home operator in the state with a new legal initiative aimed at ending the concealment of elder abuse and neglect. In March 2022, a resident with dementia was found face-down at Sun West Choice Health and Rehab. He had a massive bedsore − a telltale … Read more