The small-home senior living and pocket neighborhood trends are alive and well at Rose Villa. The continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Portland, Oregon, has for years made a name for itself ... Read More »

Technically speaking, Madrona Grove Supportive Living is a nursing home, where residents have access to 24-hour nursing care. But Madrona Grove, on the campus of Rose Villa Senior Living, is so much m... Read More »

These are not your parents’ senior living communities — at least not if Craig Witz and Vassar Byrd have anything to say about it. Speaking at the recent Environments for Aging na... Read More »

The small-house senior living trend is only growing — and a handful of trends are helping to shape how the product type is evolving. Interest in small-home senior living has swelled in recent ye... Read More »

The next generation of seniors is looking for something different. That was the message from speakers Craig Witz, principal at Witz Company, and Vassar Byrd, CEO at Rose Villa and presi... Read More »

Given the staffing shortage in the senior care industry, improving staff retention is more important now than ever. But staff retention has other implications for senior care settings, parti... Read More »

With the ready availability of the COVID-19 vaccine to anyone age 12 and older, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent announcement that people can resume activities w... Read More »

Running a nursing home during the pandemic, especially in its frightening and exhausting early months, may have left some leaders feeling they were trying to fix the engine while flying. But a panel o... Read More »

Oregon quietly reached a monumental milestone last week in the fight against COVID-19. First doses of the vaccine for COVID-19 have reached almost every nursing home, assisted living and memory care ... Read More »

John Eaglin Jr. works with some of the most vulnerable Oregonians, but when he learned he could get a shot of the vaccine against the coronavirus, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to d... Read More »

At nursing homes across the country, residents are stepping up for a shot of what Mary Lynn Spalding, CEO of Christian Care Communities, calls "liquid gold." But staff have been more hesitant&nbs... Read More »

Rose Villa in Oak Grove was among Oregon‘s first long-term care facilities to receive the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, Dec. 21, when approximately 180 staff and residentsgot the first of two COVID-... Read More »