The State of Care 2026, Powered by the Sage Care Index
See how your communities compare against the Sage Care Index across response performance, resident retention, revenue and labor, and fall response.
Enter a few details about your community or portfolio to get a personalized view of where you stand, where there may be opportunity,
and where to look first.
Fill this in to populate your findings below. Every step updates as you type.
Your portfolio
Care or level-of-care fees only, not rent.
Understand how many alerts in your portfolio could be waiting 20+ minutes for a response, and whether the 6 to 8 a.m. morning window is creating additional delays.
How many alerts may be waiting 20+ minutes, and how much worse is the morning window?
Your morning window is creating more long waits than your rest-of-day performance would suggest, making it a place to investigate first.
Next, see what slower response could mean for resident retention.Step 2 →
Sage's analysis found that communities with faster average response times had lower 90-day move-out rates. Use our estimated cost of an early move-out, or enter your own assumptions to see what that gap could mean for your portfolio.
That's an early move-out rate of 3.8 per 100 residents. Communities that respond to alerts in under 7 minutes average 2.6 per 100.
Based on one community's operating assumptions, including community fee, room turn, furniture removal, and lost revenue.
Next, see where there may be additional opportunity in the care you're already delivering and how you're staffing for it.Step 3 →
Two different places to look. Care revenue is the top line: whether residents' care needs are fully reflected in what you bill. Clinical labor is the cost side: whether clinical staff are in the right places at the right times.
Is the care you're already delivering fully reflected in what you bill?
What this could mean: At the Sage benchmark realization rate, your portfolio could capture approximately $201,600 in additional annual revenue from care already being delivered but not yet reflected in the level of care on file.
Sage benchmark across 200+ assisted living communities. ~$200 PRPM in ongoing level-of-care revenue identified over 12 months.
How could better alignment between care demand and staffing affect labor spend?
What this could mean: One Assisted Living and Memory Care portfolio reduced clinical labor spend by approximately $100 PRPM after labor optimization efforts informed by Sage Labor Insights.
One portfolio, January 2026 baseline against August 2026. A single result, not a rate observed across many communities.
Next, see how your fall response compares with other communities in the Sage Care Index.Step 4 →
Across 118 communities with at least 30 recorded fall alerts, the median community claims 76.6% of fall alerts within 10 minutes. The spread between communities is wider than most operators expect.
Out of every 10 fall alerts, roughly how many does your team claim within 10 minutes?
You've completed all four steps. Here's where to start.Where to start →
Your benchmark overview
Ranked by estimated annual value at your resident count. Each figure comes from a separate analysis, so they should not be added together.
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Your results from all four steps, what each could mean for your communities, and where to look first. Built from the figures you entered.
The State of Care 2026 report is our separate research report, built on findings from 510 senior living professionals.
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