It was shocking news … that Pacifica Senior Living had “gone belly up.” Actually, it’s dramatically different from what’s been reported.

It’s time to drop the “senior” from senior housing. It’s time to get out of senior housing financing and into housing financing.

Perhaps the real problem is that the goal is more about creating pots of gold than providing optimal experiences for older people and their family members. 

As my experience with new car technologies has shown, the challenges of seldom-driven cars are only getting worse.

What if senior living were something like M&M’s: cool, special, a privilege … a special kind of club.

Senior housing providers must believe they have the best solution to these dilemmas. They have to be able to meet prospects where they are.

Join me in my time machine and let’s take a journey back to the fall NIC conference 10 years ago. There was one thing everyone was sure of …

I am suggesting that they expand their services to be the place people go, as they grow older, to figure out how to live amazing, wonderful last-chapter lives.

Let’s start a dialog to help aging Americans live as fully as possible with as much self-agency as they are capable of for the full duration of their days.

1. Philanthropy isn’t about getting funds. It’s about making the funder’s dreams come true. I help make dreams come true. That’s my job.

There are only two things that count when evaluating any property. The first is the executive director, and the second, the team supporting the executive director.

While Greystone has looked at “aging-in-place” through the prism of its business interests, it can be constructive to take a wider perspective.

There’s opportunity where many, perhaps most, now see only challenge. The difference is that villages don’t have to be sold …

Their community and family meld together in a kind of magical mystical kind of nirvana. This is the kind of senior living community I want to age in!

It is a better way to think about the senior living ecosystem … we need to create better ways of serving residents.

Imagine a carefree life at sea with vibrant neighbors, all of whom are adventurers like you. That imaginary life is now close to becoming a reality.

It is a stupid system we have, where people who are extremely poor have more options available than people who have limited resources.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how senior living should be a wonderful cultural icon that evokes warm, wonderful feelings in people, young and old.

Our American spirit is at its best when we are resilient in applying ingenuity to fashion unique solutions to thorny challenges.