Publications

ORANJ Documents

ORANJ Tri-fold Brochure
Finance Committee Guidebook
Updating CCRC Governance
What’s  Cooking

Link to the DCA CCRC Guidebook
Link to the DCA CCRC Regulation and Financial Disclosure Act 

Link to Law Journal: Springpoint Class Action

NaCCRA Documents

Seeger: 2022-ORANJ Plenary Meeting Talk on Decision Making
NaCCRA: 2022-Financial Soundness Handbook (pdf)
NaCCRA: 2020- A Missed Opportunity 2010 to 2019 (pdf)
NaCCRA: 2018-Consumer Guide (pdf)
NaCCRA 2015-Model Bill of Rights (pdf)

ORANJ Newsletters

2018: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2017: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2016: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2015: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2014: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2013: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2012: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2011: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2010: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2009: Fall
2008: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2007: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

ORANJ Leaf single-topic publications

• ORANJ Leaf #14 – June 2024 – Shopping Opportunities in New Jersey Retirement Communities
• ORANJ Leaf #13 – August 2023 – CCRC Governing Boards and the Law
• ORANJ Leaf #12 – November 2018 – More About Hearing Loss
• ORANJ Leaf #11 – March 2018 – The Story Tellers Story, Paul Basham
• ORANJ Leaf #10 – January 2018 – Warren Sawyer, Neil Hartman, & Kathy Riley
• ORANJ Leaf #9 – October 2017 – Sharing Our Stories
• ORANJ Leaf #8 – September 2017 – Brooklynites at Fellowship Village
• ORANJ Leaf #7 – April 2017 – Guidebook for Finance Committees
• ORANJ Leaf #6 – March 2016 – NY Times re CCRCs
• ORANJ Leaf #5 – November 2015 – A New Name for CCRCs?
• ORANJ Leaf #4 – June 2015 – We Deserve a Say
• ORANJ Leaf #3 – April 2015 – CCRC Bill of Rights Distribution
• ORANJ Leaf #2 – February 2015 – National CCRA
• ORANJ Leaf #1 – January 2015 – Services of the NJ Ombudsman

Finance Committee Guidebook

In the summer of 2007, ORANJ published a Finance Committee Guidebook for residents of CCRCs who are serving on Finance Committees, as well as other interested Residents, to help them achieve a basic understanding of their CCRC’s financial position and performance as reflected in its financial statements and other key documents. The Guide was updated in 2010. It provides information to answer fundamental questions such as:

• What is needed for a CCRC in order to have long-term financial stability?
• How do you dig useful financial information out of a CCRC’s financial statements?
• What are a resident’s financial rights and protections under the law?

Download a complete copy of the Guidebook (pdf).

This publication by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs has been updated.
Continuing Care Retirement Communities, a .pdf document, revised in January 2018 by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, includes a list of CCRCs on page 36. The url still says 2011, but it’s a 2018 revision. www.nj.gov/dca/codes/publications/pdf_ccrc/ccrc2011.pdf

CARF has a useful 2016 publication, Consumer Guide to Understanding Financial Performance and Reporting in CCRCs.