Fair Value Inputs, Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization and Rent Growth Rate

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Fair Value Inputs, Management Fee Rate

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Fair Value Inputs, Number of Assets

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This element represents the total of the costs related to real estate revenues, including management, leasing, and development services.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Ratio of the net operating income produced by an asset and its capital cost (original prices paid to buy the asset), used as an input to measure fair value.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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The total amount of revenue recognized for the period from operating leases, including minimum lease revenue, contingent revenue, percentage revenue and sublease revenue.

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Master Transactions and Cooperation Agreement with Brookdale ("Brookdale Transaction") - Fair Value Measurement Techniques and Quantitative Information (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) property	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount rate		12.00%
Range of revenue growth rate		5.00%
Rental and related revenues		$ 1,071,153	$ 1,159,791	$ 1,116,830
Operating expenses		$ 666,251	$ 738,399	$ 610,679
Minimum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
EBITDAR growth rate		0.00%
Real estate capitalization rates		6.00%
Maximum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
EBITDAR growth rate		3.00%
Real estate capitalization rates		7.00%
Assets Leased to Others \| Senior housing triple-net
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Rental and related revenues	$ (20,000)
Number of assets with fair value impacts \| property	32
Assets Under Management Agreements \| SHOP
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Number of assets with fair value impacts \| property	36
Operating expenses	$ 35,000