Credit Concentration - Narrative (Details) - Atria $ in Millions	1 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2024 USD ($) property partner
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Number of properties \| property	89
Number of exisiting operating partners \| partner	6
Termination expense \| $	$ 26

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.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 954
-SubTopic 310
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147478785/954-310-50-2

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