EXHIBIT 23.2


                         INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT


The Board of Trustees
Senior Housing Properties Trust:

We consent to the  incorporation by reference in the  registration  statement on
Form S-3 of Senior  Housing  Properties  Trust on our report  dated  February 5,
2001,  with respect to the combined  balance sheets of the Forty-two  Facilities
Acquired by Senior Housing  Properties  Trust from Integrated  Health  Services,
Inc. as of  September  30, 2000 and  December  31, 1999 and 1998 and the related
statements of operations, changes in net equity of parent company and cash flows
for the  periods  then  ended,  which  report  appears in the Form 8-K of Senior
Housing Properties Trust dated January 30, 2001 as amended.


/s/ KPMG LLP

Baltimore, Maryland
January 11, 2002