New knowledge is underscoring the necessary hyperlink amongst senior residing residents’ sense of “feeling at dwelling,” their satisfaction and an operator’s monetary success.
That’s based on the 2025 Impartial and Assisted Residing Really feel at House Report by the American Seniors Housing Affiliation (ASHA) in partnership with the ProMatura Group. The examine profiled over 4,500 residents in unbiased and assisted residing communities, and updates analysis carried out in 2013 and 2015.
Creating a way of dwelling for residents and their households may also help operators elevate resident happiness or satisfaction whereas additionally enhancing working efficiency over time, based on the report.
A complete of 83% of unbiased residing residents reported feeling at dwelling “all or more often than not,” whereas assisted residing residents reported an identical feeling nearly three-quarters (73%) of the time. The strongest predictor of resident satisfaction and whether or not they’ll suggest their neighborhood to a buddy is whether or not they really feel “at dwelling.”
Elements that contributed to unbiased residing residents’ sense of “feeling at dwelling” included relationships with mates, household and different residents, together with a caring employees that is aware of them by title. In assisted residing, residents reported “feeling at dwelling” most by satisfaction with their non-public residence and its inside ornament, together with a powerful sense of camaraderie with different residents and a perception that they would choose the identical neighborhood once more.
The report notes that the business has made progress in the direction of enhancing senior residing environments that promote emotional consolation and well-being, particularly as wellness and way of life traits have develop into extra commonplace and well being care companies have develop into extra personalised. Together with these features, 86% of unbiased residing residents and 76% of assisted residing residents stated {that a} neighborhood having “state-of-the-art expertise” is “important or fascinating” as extra operators make investments in expertise to enhance operations and care.
ASHA and ProMatura discovered that the common age of unbiased residing residents was 80.6 years-old and 83.8 years-old in assisted residing, whereas common size of keep for unbiased residing was 4.8 years and three.5 years in assisted residing.
Different studies up to now have highlighted the constructive affect senior residing can have on older adults, and that is vitally necessary as residing alone is the norm for older adults, based on the most recent ASHA report. Nearly two-thirds of unbiased residing (65%) residents and 83% of assisted residing residents reported residing alone.
In a information launch accompanying the report, ASHA CEO and President David Schless calls the report “game-changing,” because the report has publicly for the primary time made a direct correlation between emotional consolation and neighborhood success.
“This seminal analysis is really game-changing for homeowners and operators because it clearly connects the significance of `feeling at dwelling’ by residents to excessive ranges of resident satisfaction and to financially profitable senior residing communities for the primary time ever,” Schless stated. “Whereas there are myriad elements in working excessive performing seniors housing, the significance of fostering a powerful sense of feeling at dwelling amongst residents is paramount.”
The latest At House Report additionally reveals an improved sentiment over time between 2013 and 2024, with residents who recognized themselves as being within the “I’m House” group elevated from 25% to 30% in unbiased residing and 24% to 30% in assisted residing in that point interval. The assisted residing and reminiscence care resident phase additionally noticed improved sentiment over time, growing from 20% to 42%, the report reveals.
The 2025 Impartial Residing and Assisted Residing Really feel at House Report is out there on the bookstore on ASHA’s web site.
