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Loans Receivable - Four Seasons Health Care (Details) £ in Millions	1 Months Ended			12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) property	Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2017 GBP (£)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) property	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 property	Jun. 30, 2019 property	Mar. 31, 2019 property
Loans receivable
Interest income				$ 9,844,000	$ 10,406,000	$ 56,237,000
Proceeds from sale of buildings				0	335,709,000	462,242,000
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities				647,271,000	$ (2,620,536,000)	$ (2,148,461,000)
Four Seasons
Loans receivable
Proceeds from sale of HTM security		$ 101,000,000	£ 83.0
Real Estate Secured
Loans receivable
Interest income				$ 6,000,000
Discounted cash flows \| Level 2 \| Four Seasons
Loans receivable
Debt Securities, Held-to-maturity, Sold, Realized Gain (Loss)		$ 51,000,000	42.0
FLORIDA \| Four Seasons
Loans receivable
Amortized cost on HTM security, before OTTI \| £			£ 138.5
SHOP
Loans receivable
Number of assets to be sold (in properties) \| property	7			7			1	1	9
SHOP \| FLORIDA
Loans receivable
Number of assets to be sold (in properties) \| property	2			2
Proceeds from sale of buildings	$ 56,000,000
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	45,000,000
Redevelopment funding	$ 10,000,000
Percent of estimated cost of redevelopment	80.00%