How Senior Living Stumbled Into One of Its Biggest Ideas
The best innovations in senior living often happen when someone notices the market changing before the language catches up.
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The best innovations in senior living often happen when someone notices the market changing before the language catches up.
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The biggest insight from the conversation may be this: aging technology will only succeed if it respects the people it is designed to serve.
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The opportunity is to create places where people can say, โI could move there. I could grow there. I could still be me there.โ
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Murryโs argument is simple: if leadership only exists in formal moments, itโs not leadership. Itโs theater.
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Communities canโt prevent every fall, but they can reduce unknowns, improve interventions, and support caregivers so they donโt carry the burden alone.
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Steve puts words to what feels like the giant missed opportunity: why arenโt employees and families being activated as part of advocacy?
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Mitch Brownโs journey into senior living is not clean, linear, or strategic. It is messy, accidental, and deeply instructive.
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As the calendar flips from 2025 to 2026, what changes in caregiving and senior living โ and what changes because reality doesnโt care about our timelines?
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Senior living may be facing another major inflection point. In this clip from Pivot with Pettit,...
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Silos donโt happen because people are lazy. They happen because senior living has competing goals running in parallel
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Mitch Brown explains one of senior livingโs biggest marketing challenges: people often do not understand the appeal of active adult living until they experience it for themselves.
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Stillness practices, including Tai Chi, come from a being mode. And the being mode is where teams recover.
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The underlying message is clear: older adults arenโt โbehind.โ Theyโre exploring โ when the on-ramp is built for them.
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This show is about people. The people of aging services. The people of senior living. But most of all, the people behind the work.
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In this clip from Directly Speaking, Direct Supply shares a broader vision for serving seniors across the full continuum of care.
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In this Heard in the Halls clip, we explore why senior living needs more connected conversations across roles, perspectives, and priorities.
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Senior living is built on humans serving humans. Processes can help. But none of it matters if the people doing the work feel unsupported.
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Perryโs push is simple: be loud together about the shared priorities. Save the internal debates for later.
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โBe a servant leader.โ โLead with your heart.โ โListen more.โ Sure โ but what does a leader do on Monday morning?
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This is going to do something simple and disruptive: listen carefully, connect perspectives, and push senior living toward collaboration.
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A resident is one whole person. Senior living teams often approach that person from very different...
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When every department is caring for the same resident but working from different goals and agendas, collaboration breaks down.
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Perry argues that advocacy isnโt just about rates and rules. Itโs also about telling enough true stories …
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The case for โone-voiceโ advocacy across the continuum and why the industry needs to stop fighting each other over the small stuff.
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If youโre trying, people are surprisingly forgiving. And thatโs the best news in the whole conversation: you donโt have to become perfect.
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Bill Pettit says the biggest mistake the industry is making is simple: โwe keep building in places nobody wants to live.โ
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When asked what senior living is missing, Macaulee doesnโt say โmore softwareโ or โmore controls.โ She says confidence.
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His answer is immediate: itโs not about replacement. Itโs about augmentation โ making care easier for staff and more connected for families.
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Wellness is personal. It looks different to everyone. Thatโs why the campaign intentionally focuses on โways to age well,โ not โthe way.โ
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Bill Pettit has spent thirty years thinking about this question and in his mind the answer is easy: hospitality wins.
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At Foresight, one of the most-asked questions we get is, โWhat’s the best senior living conference to attend?โ
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Caregivers who find something to talk about beyond care tasks build the trust that makes their work more effective and residents’ lives better.
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In senior living, we often act like we have to choose: hospitality or care. In this clip, Bill Pettit challenges that assumption.
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Boomers aren’t interested in age-segregated living. Previous generations found comfort in communities where everyone shared similar life experiences.
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If youโre in a season of questioning, reassessing, or realigning โ youโre not behind. Youโre paying attention.
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After nearly 50 years across three careers, he’s found that the most rewarding work isn’t about climbing corporate ladders โ it’s about reaching out …
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Hereโs the truth: the algorithm doesn’t care about your content anymore โ it cares about conversations. Brooke’s CARE framework turns this upside down …
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The Latest Senior Living Headlines Jan 24, 2026
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What if your waitlist wasnโt just a pipeline but a powerful revenue engine? In this episode of...
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๐ญ What if your senior living community was tied to your life insurance policy? In China, thatโs...
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It’s dementia insight from Down Under! Psychiatrist and brain health coach Kailas Roberts...
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“So often as caregivers, we don’t pause to take the win. We’re so focused on...
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Does it feel like your light bulbs are always burning out? It’s time to start talking about...
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They told me that management by walking around was largely fruitless. If itโs done wrong, they are right. True MBWA goes so much deeper.
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Here’s a lightly edited manifesto of sorts from a team member. Don’t you want to work here? Don’t you want to be this kind of leader?
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Dr. DeLon Canterbury is a geriatric pharmacist with a mission to DE-prescribe seniors. He has...
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We all have embarrassing moments. We all have stupid things we wish we hadnโt said. Maybe mine will help you with yours.
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There is a lot of debate about whether those who quiet quit are lazy or are creating healthy boundaries. I kind of think itโs deeper than that.
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Do you REALLY understand your occupancy numbers? Do you have a real-time picture of your marketing and sales efforts?
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The story: Rather than pushing marketing messages out, Wendy and her team at Big Buzz draw people...
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We need to continue to look for ingenuity and creative solutions in all departments and all ranks in our communities.
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What makes a person different? How can you ease the guilt of moving your Mom into a senior living community?
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By Steve Moran If you are alive you know that Facebook is facing buckets and buckets of criticism,...
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The story: UpsideHลM is senior living for people who donโt want senior living. Its ร la carte...
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Let’s not do sales culture anymore. Let’s talk about mission culture. Deborah Potter discusses the new way of senior living marketing.
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โWe want to help people protect their privacy. We want to help them age with dignity.”
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Steve Moran talks to Beth Mace and Caroline Pearson about their joint COVID study and what it means for the senior living industry.
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Some people seem to be completely blind to the problem and completely miss the point of the conversations we are having about race.
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By Steve Moran Well okay, just one problem . . . it is actually not technically a senior living...
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Management often gets wrapped up in what something should look like, should be, and forgets what it really is.
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