HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
The Cost of Inaction: Delaying Finance Outsourcing
If your finance team is feeling the strain — or if you’re simply curious about how outsourcing could help — you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Who Should Be Innovating In Your Organization?
The most successful innovation leaders don’t say “follow me” — they say “I believe in your vision. How can I help make it happen?”
Richard Branson’s One-Sentence Business Revolution
In Branson’s world this means leaders need to genuinely care about people and they need to hire people who genuinely care about people.
TECHNOLOGY
Let the Bubble Rise or Burst!
Does AI have enormous potential, especially for senior living? Are we in an AI market bubble with the players now rushing their IPOs?
What If Every Resident Had a Book Inside Them?
The lesson for senior living is simple: The stories are already there. Technology like Remento simply helps preserve the meaning before it disappears.
Why Boomers Will Force Senior Living to Rethink Everything
Senior living is entering a new era. And the winners will be those who use technology to give adults more agency, safety, and control over how they live.
DEVELOPMENT
The Future of Senior Living: More Demand, More Pressure, More Opportunity
Senior living is at a crossroads. That sounds scary. But it may also be exactly where the industry needs to be.
Beyond Boring: Making Residential Living Attractive
The insight is that most of the same things that make shipboard life attractive are no different from what can make senior living attractive.
CCRC Alternatives Are on the March
The attraction of villages is that they are not outright alternatives to assisted living models. Instead, villages can complement and support a CCRC.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Revolutionizing Your Resident and Team Experiences at Zero Cost
The right question is, “What would your team do with their time if the friction got out of the way?”
It Seems Obvious, but Which Would You Choose?
Imagine this scenario … You have been interviewing like crazy, frustrating, but out of the blue, you end up with two amazing offers on the table …
Stillness As Strategy: Slowing Down Can Improve Care
Stillness practices, including Tai Chi, come from a being mode. And the being mode is where teams recover.
LEADERSHIP
Are You a Force Multiplier or Something Else?
As a leader, your job isn’t to be the smartest person in the room or the one doing the most work. It is your job to be a force multiplier!
The MorseLife Mess, Part 2: The Vaccines, and Who Was Supposed to Say No
MorseLife held a vaccination clinic. 976 people were vaccinated. More than half, 567 people, were not eligible under the program.
The MorseLife Mess, Part 1: The Management Agreement
Amplifii has since filed its own breach of contract suit against MorseLife, and the agreement itself, along with a lengthy attached schedule of duties.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
Old Enough to Not Matter
We oldsters still care about the world and believe we have something to contribute. But, the truth is, that in the eyes of the world, we’ve run our course.
Changing the Narrative
Life is a grand adventure. Enjoy every moment of it. And Shakespeare/Hamlet got it wrong. It turns out that we’re all frail in the end.
Your Life Is the By-Product of Your Lifestyle
We have dozens, maybe hundreds, of things we do each day with little or no thought. None of it feels like a decision. That’s the point.
SALES & MARKETING
The Most Underserved Person in Senior Living …
When your senior living community then becomes the hub for three generations, you have built something almost impossible to compete with.
The 9-Year-Old Sales Closer: Senior Living’s Secret Weapon
When you build amenities that grandkids love, you turn the resident into the destination grandparent. The one the grandkids beg to visit.
The Shocking Carriage Driver Story
The Transport Workers Union did not go quiet. They named the specific failure, they named the consequence, and they said this is not who we are.
FORESIGHT RADIO
S8E13-Why Senior Living Needs a “Culture of Yes” with Honor Barrett of Birchgrove
“I hope we’re a destination people want to come to and don’t feel like they have to.”
FORESIGHT TV
Person-Centered Leadership: Overhauling Clinical Culture
Deeandra Sandgren, Chief Nursing Officer at Good Samaritan, and Steve Moran discuss leading with empathy at scale.