Organization (Details Textual)	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Sentio Investments, LLC [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Formation date	20-Dec-11
Sentio Healthcare Properties OP, LP [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Formation date	17-Oct-06
Operating Partnership and the HC Operating Partnership, LP [Member]
Organization [Line Items]
Percentage of interest owned	100.00%

The number of units or percentage investment held by one or more members or limited partners of the LLC or LP.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 272

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 3

-Subparagraph (b)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70478-108055

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