Senior Housing News September 17, 2020
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is dismantling a long-held notion among some senior living providers that health care is not their domain.
That doesn’t mean senior living providers need to abandon hospitality-driven models altogether. But it does likely mean they need to rethink how they coordinate care within their communities, according to Nexus Insights Founder and National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) Co-Founder Bob Kramer.
“[The pandemic is causing] what you might call the creative destruction of some of what has been the paradigm to senior housing and care,” Kramer said during a panel at the LeadingAge 2020 Collaborative Care HIT Summit Thursday. “The senior housing and care model that we don’t do health care, and that we...