Andrew J. Carle
Assistant Professor
Director, Assisted Living/Senior Housing Administration

Unit: Dept. of Health Administration and Policy
Mail Stop: 1J3
Office Location: Northeast Module 109
Phone: 703-993-9131
Email: acarle@gmu.edu

Program Link - Assisted Living/Senior Housing Administration

“In the next three decades individuals aged 65 and older will come to represent one out of every five U.S. citizens and, more importantly, control more than half of all discretionary income.  Their demographic and economic influence will extend to the farthest reaches of American culture – from entertainment, to travel, food, retail, technology, and housing.  By force of sheer volume, the young adults who in 1968 thought they would change the world – by 2028 actually will.”

Andrew Carle, MHSA, is an Assistant Professor and founding Director of the Program in Assisted Living/Senior Housing Administration within the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.  The program offers the first academic curricula in the nation dedicated exclusively to the rapidly growing senior housing field.  Mr. Carle brings more than 20 years executive level senior housing and healthcare experience to the program, including the development of both operating systems and innovative ancillary service programs for a national Top 10 senior housing provider.

In addition to the Mason program, Mr. Carle has received national and international recognition for identifying and defining a new category of senior housing – University Based Retirement Communities (UBRC’s)™, as well as a definition and categories for “Nana” Technology™ (technologies for older adults).  His work has been featured or cited in USA TODAY, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smart Money, Business 2.0, Bloomberg News, and on CNN.com, CNBC, FOX Morning News, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio, among others; internationally in Agence France Presse, KYODO News Service, the Australian Broadcast Corporation, and Israeli National Television; and in more than 60 senior housing and aging services industry publications.

Mr. Carle has published numerous articles and presented nationally and internationally on a variety of senior housing operations, marketing, and related topics, including providing the keynote address at the 25th Australian Congress on Aging in 2006. His book, “Moments, Memories, and Mission: Stories from the Field of Assisted Living”, received a Silver Award during the 15th Annual National Mature Market Media competition.  He is the recipient of a 2006 “Best of the Best in Aging Services” Award from Aging News Alert, the 2004 “Leaders in Aging – Mentor Award” from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and was awarded “Teacher of the Year” honors for the Undergraduate Program in Health Administration & Policy.  Mr. Carle has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a master’s in health services administration from The George Washington University.  He continues to serve as a consultant to the senior housing industry, universities, and technology companies, with past and current clients including AARP, Nintendo, Vigorous Mind, GTX Corporation, and the Assisted Living Federation of America, among others. 

Recent Publications:

Carle, A. (2008).  Experts’ Roundtable: “Best Design Features”.  Assisted Living Consult. May/Jun., Vol. 4, No. 3, pgs. 37-38.

Carle, A. (2007).  The best monitoring may begin with ‘hello’.  Long Term Living.  Nov. Vol. 56, No. 11, pgs. 58-60.

Carle, A. (2007).  More than a game: Brain training against dementia.  Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management.  Aug., Vol. 56, No. 8, pgs.22-24.

Carle, A. (2006).  ‘Common sense’ often in eye of the beholder.  McKnight’s Assisted Living.  October, Vol. 4, No. 5, pg. 25.

Carle, A. (2006).  Defining a new form of senior housing. The Journal on Active Aging.  Sept./Oct., Vol. 5, No. 5, pg. 94.