Welcome to the SNAPforSeniors® Newsroom
a resource center where you can read about SNAPforSeniors' latest developments and
related news & industry information.
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Press Releases
April 30, 2008
American College of Health Care Administrators and SNAPforSeniors form alliance
ACHCA launches Senior Housing Locator on website
April 2, 2008
SNAPforSeniors® now helps BenefitsCheckUp® users locate housing options
Senior Housing Locator launched as a companion tool to widely used Web service
March 27, 2008
REALTORS® specializing in seniors market embrace the role of advisor to older Americans
Seniors Real Estate Specialists adopt resource to help clients searching for senior housing
February 19, 2008
URAC launches online decision support tool to ease housing, care transitions
Senior Housing Locator® available free on URAC portals for consumers, health care management organizations, employers and policy makers
February 8, 2008
Tennessee tornadoes spur senior move managers to aid elderly in crisis
New mapping tool powered by SNAPforSeniors® helps members quickly locate safe housing
February 6, 2008
Senior move managers now have an online resource to simplify the search for senior housing
National Association of Senior Move Managers and SNAPforSeniors® introduce NASMM Senior Housing Locator
January 22, 2008
Social workers can now use free online tool to help seniors find housing
Social Work Today Magazine and SNAPforSeniors® announce Senior Housing Locator
January 15, 2008
Case Management Society of America announces new tool, the CMSA Senior Housing Locator
by SNAPforSeniors®
Online navigational tool will help simplify searches
for appropriate senior housing
January 9, 2008
Holiday visits nudge many towards senior housing decision
Online navigational tool available to help simplify and refine
October 29, 2007
Retirement Living TV Launches Retirement Housing Guide
For Older Americans
First Comprehensive Database of Senior Housing Choices on www.rl.tv
October 1, 2007
Alzheimer’s Association® To Add Web Tool To Help Find
Housing Options For Those With Dementia
Launching November 2007, National Family Caregiver and National Alzheimer’s Disease
Month.
September 19, 2007
Alzheimer’s Association Introduces New Services For
People Affected By The Disease
November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, National Family Caregivers
Month.
August 15, 2007
ELDR and SNAPforSeniors Introduce Free Online Housing
Locator
July 2, 2007
Alzheimer’s Association Invites Providers to Add Profiles
for the Launch of the First National Dementia-specific Senior Housing Database
The Alzheimer's Association in collaboration with SNAPforSeniors is pleased to announce
the upcoming launch of the Senior Housing Finder.
April 4, 2007
SNAPforSeniors™ Eases the Search for Senior Housing
with Free Tips Booklet Senior Housing: What You Need to Know
Understanding your short and long-term needs is the first step to success when researching
senior housing options, according to the free, 12-page educational booklet available
for download.
October 1, 2006
SNAPforSeniors™ online senior housing source launches
with exclusive Senior Services partnership...read more
SNAPforSeniors, www.snapforseniors.com, a free online senior housing information
source -- the only one that lists all housing providers in Washington state and
shows vacancies --launched today.
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In the News
Test-Driving Senior Housing
By Eve M. Stern
Social Work Today, March/April, 2008
News You Can Use: Tips and Tools for Alzheimer's Patients, Caregivers
Features a link to the Senior Housing Finder
ABC News, March 18, 2008
Staying Together
By Eve M. Stern
Social Work Today, February 28, 2008
Not a nursing home, but a nurturing home
By Tanika White | Sun reporter
Baltimore Sun | baltimoresun.com, February 24, 2008
What You Need to Know About Alzheimer’s
by Diane Guernsey
Town & Country, November, 2007
When Patients Can No Longer Live Alone: Finding Better
Ways to Search for Senior Housing
by Eve M. Stern
King County Medical Society Bulletin, October, 2007
Affordable Senior Housing: A Waiting Game
Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2007
Snappy Site
A Seattle-based Web Site Makes Finding Senior Housing Easy
Seattle Magazine, September, 2007
Listen to Eve M. Stern, President, SNAPforSeniors
interviewed on Puget Sound Public Radio KUOW, 94.9 by Megan Sukys.
KUOW 94.9, The Beat, July 12, 2007
Online Tool to Locate Care Facilities
Senior Services Information and Assistance Passport Newsletter, March,
2007
How to Find Senior
Housing for a Loved One
Today's Nurse, February, 2007
Entrepreneurs see opportunities in catering to the elderly, from
Web sites to real estate services
Puget Sound Business Journal Monday, January 10, 2007
Need a new home for grandma? It's a
SNAP!
Reporter Newspapers, The Renton Reporter, Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Senior housing info at a snap
Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sunday October 1, 2006
Read the transcript
of Derek Preston, Chief Executive Officer interviewed
KOMO Radio 1000, Nancy Barrick, October 2, 2006
View Eve M. Stern, President & Chief Operating
Officer interviewed
CNN/Comcast Local Edition, Tony Ventrella
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Events
Management and staff from SNAPforSeniors will participate in the following industry
meetings and conferences:
NASMM 2008 Annual Convention
February 7-10, 2008 St. Louis, MO
nasmm.org
WBL (Women Business Leaders) Summit
March 5-7, 2008 Washington, D.C.
womenleadinghealthcare.org
URAC Best Practices in Consumer Empowerment and Protection
March 25-26, 2008 Orlando, FL
urac.org
Aging in America, Annual Conference of NCOA and ASA
March 26-30, 2008 Washington, D.C.
“Effective Methods for Sourcing and Screening Specialized Dementia Care”
-Eve M. Stern, RN, MS, president of SNAPforSeniors
ncoa.org
23rd Annual Alzheimer's Association Education Conference
April 4, 2008 Seattle, WA
alzwa.org
10th Annual McGinty Conference on Alzheimer's
April 17, 2008 Portland, OR
alz.org Oregon chapter
15th Annual NICM Case Management Conference & 9th Annual ACMA Meeting
April 28-May 1, 2008 Las Vegas, NV
acma.org
National Assoc. Professional Geriatric Care Managers Annual Conference
May 1-4, 2008 Orlando, FL
caremanager.org
ACHCA Annual Convocation and Exposition
May 17-20, 2008 Greater Cincinnati, OH
“Online Marketing: We Built Our Website… Now What?”
-Eve M. Stern, RN, MS, president of SNAPforSeniors
achca.org
ALFA Conference and Expo
May 29-31, 2008 Orlando, FL
alfa.org
CMSA 18th Annual Conference and Expo
June 17-20, 2008 Orlando, FL
“Quality Evaluation Tools for Online Database/Decision Support Resources”
-Eve M. Stern, RN, MS, president of SNAPforSeniors
cmsa.org
n4a 33rd Annual Conference and Tradeshow
July 20-23, 2008 Nashville, TN
n4a.org
Alzheimer's Association Dementia Care Conference
August 24-27, 2008 Garden Grove, CA
alz.org
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Company Overview
SNAPforSeniors is the only free online senior housing information source that lists
all licensed housing providers and select independent living communities. SNAPforSeniors
is the only source that:
- lists all of the estimated 65,000 housing providers, not just those that pay for
placement or advertising, and updates its database with licensed facilities and
independent living communities.
- indicates housing providers that have vacancies within a geographic area.
- directly matches a senior’s specific lifestyle and care level needs with facilities.
- has an exclusive public/private partnership with Senior Services and enjoys several
other preferred relationships with Senior Information and Assistance agencies, local
hospitals and non–profit organizations throughout the state such as the Alzheimer’s
Association of Central and Western Washington and Pierce County Aging and Long Term
Care.
The website safeguards users’ personal information and will not release it to anyone
without the user’s permission.
SNAPforSeniors was created to quickly and efficiently assist seniors and advocates
with one of the most stressful and complicated decisions of a lifetime -- identifying
the best elder housing option for oneself or a loved one. SNAPforSeniors transforms
what has long been a typically complex, onerous and time consuming task into a time-saving,
highly personalized and informed decision-making process.
Virtually everyone will deal with the senior housing transition at one time or another.
- The 63 million Americans age 55 and older now will grow to 100 million in just seven
years, The Wall Street Journal reported in September 2006.
- One in six American workers today care for an elder relative and that will increase
to one in four (25 percent) in just six more years, according to the National Alliance
for Caregiving.
Through personal experience of identifying senior housing for a loved one and market
research, the SNAPforSeniors management team realized that no comprehensive and
objective listing of all senior housing providers existed to help narrow the senior
housing options. The idea to address this problem was defined -- match an elder’s
needs and wishes with present available housing options in one free, comprehensive
resource on the Internet that helps people find the best senior housing option.
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Key Industry Data of Interest
The soaring demand for senior housing and its impact in the workplace
- Demand is soaring as the aging U.S. population goes looking for someplace staffed
to help elderly residents with day-to-day tasks (housekeeping, pill-taking and the
like), but isn’t a full blown nursing home. Waiting lists are increasingly common,
and prices are rising sharply. On average, assisted living costs about $35,000 a
year in 2005 up roughly a third from 2002, before figuring in health-care expenses,
according to a recent survey by MetLife, Inc.
- “…assisted living centers are near saturation at 95 percent occupancy nationwide,”
The Seattle Times reported in September 2006.
- “…a demographic earthquake. The 63 million Americans age 55 and older now will grow
to 100 million in just seven years,” The Wall Street Journal reported in
September 2006.
- “The group estimated that by 2010 Alzheimer’s disease will affect one in 10 people
over age 65 or 5.6 million Americans, while the cost of care will jump 75% percent
to about $160 billion per year in Medicare costs alone,” United Press International,
Inc . reported in April 2006.
- “Eldercare has begun to rival child care as a workplace issue and companies have
started to realize that such support props up not just workers but the bottom line.
One in six American workers care for an older relative, according to the National
Alliance for Caregiving,” as reported in The Dallas Morning News, August 2006.
- “The American Senior Housing Association (ADHA) said that on a national basis, 1
million move into senior housing.”
- “Assisted Living centers are a fine way to care for the aged, but finding a good
one isn’t a snap… With no databases available, the soundest strategy when shopping
for assisted living is to visit many centers, and ask many questions, certainly
of residents,” according to the Forbes: The 2006 Investment Guide.
- “Smaller families flung over long distances are making it harder to care for ill
and aging relatives these days, The Wall Street Journal reported in July 2006.
Internet use among an aging population
- Of the 155 million people currently using the Internet in the United States, 17
percent are between the ages of 45 and 54, according to comScore Media Metrix, April
2004. Like most, they are using the Web to shop, manage their finances, keep in
touch with friends and family, and gather information on an endless number of topics.
With so much literally at their fingertips, today’s older adults will be the most
technologically savvy—and informed—group ever to retire.
- With more than 68 percent of baby boomers (ages 40 to 58) using the Internet frequently,
chances are good that they are conducting senior housing research online, according
to The Pew Internet & American Life Project found.
Consumers are going online to get information about available communities, neighborhoods,
housing prices, retirement lifestyle options and more. Communities that do not provide
information online and reach out to the more than 27 million baby boomers on the
Internet are missing the boat, comScore Media Metrix said.
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