Disposal Group, Number Of Communities Exercised To Market For Sale

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Disposal Group, Number Of Communities Exercised To Market For Sale And Sold

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Lessee, Operating Leases, Option To Terminate, Reduction Of Rent For Terminating Communities

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Lessee, Operating Leases, Option To Terminate, Rent Reduction, Percentage Of Proceeds Of Terminations

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Operating Leases, Number Of Communities

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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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Amount of gain (loss) on termination of lease before expiration of lease term.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Section 40
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=77888415&loc=SL77918607-209975

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The percentage charged for managing real estate properties.

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Acquisitions, Dispositions and Other Significant Transactions - Ventas Lease Portfolio Restructuring (Details) $ in Thousands	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) lease	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($) community	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) lease community	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Apr. 01, 2018 community
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of communities leased \| lease		244			244
Loss on facility lease termination and modification, net \| $		$ 0		$ (2,337)	$ (2,006)	$ (148,804)
Ventas, Inc \| Master Lease And Security Agreement
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of communities leased \| community							128
Management percent fee	5.00%
Loss on facility lease termination and modification, net \| $				$ 125,700
Number of communities exercised to market for sale \| community					28
Option to terminate, rent reduction percentage							6.25%
Number of communities exercised to market for sale and sold \| community			5
Reduction of rent for terminating communities \| $			$ 1,500