Q&A: Beth Mace discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the senior housing sector

Beth Mace is the chief economist and director of outreach at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC).

NIC is a 501(c)3 organization established in 1991 whose mission is to enable access and choice by providing data, analytics, and connections that bring together investors and providers in independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing and post-acute care.

Mace discusses the coronavirus and its impact on the senior housing sector.

1. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, how is the senior housing sector faring? How has that changed over the last few months?

First, let me start by saying that there is great uncertainty in the world today related to the breadth and depth of epidemiological causes and spread of the COVID-19 pa