While executives were hobnobbing at the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry conference Thursday, just across the street seven members of the Service Employees International Union held signs criticizing assisted living provider Atria Senior Living.

The Wesley Enhanced Living Foundation will host "The Aging Revolution II," a conference devoted to aging issues, on September 25 in Philadelphia.

President Bush Wednesday signed into law a housing bill that will help more than 400,000 Americans keep their homes and help to stabilize the turbulent housing market. The legislation also will streamline the financing process for Section 202 housing projects.

The amount of financing placed in seniors housing dropped by a precipitous 60% in the first quarter of 2008, according to data released this month from the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry. That could lead to an easing up on new development.

Adding a long-term care benefit to the Medicare program would be a favorable way to help address the impending challenges related to the aging baby-boom generation, healthcare experts say in a new Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare survey.

Suspense has been building around passage of a critical Medicare bill and whether the Senate can take such action before the July 4th recess.

A total of 6%, or roughly 27,000 of all Medicare providers—including nursing homes—collected Medicare reimbursements in 2006 while owing a collective total of more than $2 billion in back-taxes, the Government Accountability Office said recently.

Half of all seniors cited deteriorating health as the number one reason they would leave their homes, while nearly one in four said they would move due to a desire to live in seniors housing, according to a newly released Special Issue Brief from the American Seniors Housing Association.

A total of 20% of nursing homes deliver care that is directly harmful to residents, a government official told federal lawmakers Thursday.

It's hardly a secret that eldercare services in this nation are in a state of flux. The average age of nursing homes in most metro markets has surpassed 30 years.