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
The Future Shows Up Whether We’re Ready Or Not
As the calendar flips from 2025 to 2026, what changes in caregiving and senior living — and what changes because reality doesn’t care about our timelines?
What Senior Living Misses About Resident Tech
The underlying message is clear: older adults aren’t “behind.” They’re exploring — when the on-ramp is built for them.
Learning From Fiction
With the right sensitivity to full disclosure, these emerging AI tools can be very powerful. They also have the potential to mislead.
DEVELOPMENT
The Village Movement Is Growing
There is an opportunity for care providers to collaborate with local villages, or even to sponsor and support them.
Senior Housing “Is a Consumer Business”
In the long run, the prize will go to those who are able to follow people to give them what they want as they age.
Myopia and Happy Talk
Among the panelists and the LeadingAge facilitator, there was jollity, camaraderie, and commiseration.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
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.
The Leadership Trap You Are Missing
Here is the truth: you like some of the people you lead better than others. And conversely, you dislike some of your team members.
Workforce Challenge
What would it take to turn the industry from convention and follow-the-leader innovation toward the embrace of the American spirit of creative innovation?
LEADERSHIP
What Do You Cry About?
Answer these questions honestly, and it becomes surprisingly easy to see whether you are truly fulfilling your purpose.
Unauthorized
Sometimes, the right thing is the wrong thing in the eyes of those in authority. That’s a lesson that might be trained up the hierarchy.
Who Are You Performing For?
It’s a hard truth, but we are all performing. Every day. In every meeting, every conversation, every decision we make in front of other people.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
What if You Could Have More Joy in Your Life?
Here’s the thing … Joy doesn’t cost energy. It produces it. Most of us have that exactly backwards.
Forgotten Souls
Will the industry that will be there when you are older, be no better than the industry to which you have dedicated your career? Is change possible?
More Wondering: Why Not Collaborate?
By consigning residents to subordinate status, high achievement residents can contribute positive energy and proven experience.
SALES & MARKETING
A Welcome Spam Message
The visual is appealing, and the glimpse of fresh vegetables immediately catches one’s eye. Quick impressions are paramount when you are sending spam.
Cultural Change from Them to Us
Can we return to that earlier culture in which the customer was central, and the enterprise served that customer?
Affiliating With the Village Movement
Imagine benefiting from a rapidly growing movement to improve your occupancy and your reputation for resident empowerment.
FORESIGHT RADIO
S8 Episode 5 – Reinventing Life Enrichment in Senior Living
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Ashlea Smalley to explore how senior living communities are evolving beyond outdated stereotypes.
FORESIGHT TV
Building a Data-Driven Future in Senior Living
Steve Moran sits down with Zack Collevechio of Varsity Branding to discuss the tangible impact of AI on the senior living industry.