The 2005 Seniors Housing & Care Journal presents research with day-to-day relevance for managers in the field. Articles point the way to solving some of the practical problems facing the industry and to improving essential business functions. Volume 13 covers a full range of seniors housing and care settings, including private apartments and houses, assisted living, skilled nursing, and continuing care retirement communities and features the following articles:

• Encouraging Physical Activity Among Retirement Community Residents – The Role of Campus Commitment, Programming, Staffing, Promotion, Financing and Accreditation
• Investigating Case-Mix Classification for Elderly Residents in Assisted Living looks at the development and evaluation of case-mix classification models for elderly residents in assisted living and suggest a four-factor model.
• Assisted Living Communities and Medical Care Providers: Establishing Proactive Relationships discusses medical care in assisted living, focusing on the proactive development of relationships between assisted living communities and residents’ medical providers.
• Seniors Living in Suburbs: Differences Between Independent-Apartment and Single-Home Dwellers compares the service utilization of older adults living in single-family homes and those living in independent-living apartments.
• Do Satisfaction Surveys Tell Us What We Need to Know? The Expectation Alternative presents the measurement of expectations as an alternative, or a supplement, to the measurement of resident satisfaction.
• Anatomy of a Turnaround: Where Strategy and Tactics Meet describes the turnaround of the Marriott Senior Living business, an excellent case study of the steps taken to position and improve the operating performance of a business and the importance of flexibility in dealing with internal/external environmental factors.