Category: Life Enrichment
How An Extraordinary Partnership Resulted in Happier, Healthier, Safer Residents
It’s about the planning, goal-setting, person-centered approach, and partnership that creates the brightest results.
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What If You Could Stop Pain Up Front? – This is Fantastic
Since we’ve all experienced pain, this should really hit home for all of us.
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How to Create the Best Life Enrichment Program in The Country . . .
What kind of impact would we have on those growing older if we were really good at solving the loneliness problem?
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The Perfect Senior Living Guest Apartment Experience
I have experienced pretty good to awful but never once spectacular until this past week.
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Who Cares?
Let’s make living and thriving in senior living communities more fun for caregivers with greater dignity for residents.
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It’s All in the Story You Tell
Facts are facts. Images and stories make them come alive.
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The Senior Living Dining Revolution . . .
There is no better time for socializing, building and maintaining relationships than breaking bread together.
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This Is an Alexa “Skill” You Need to Know About
For older adults, especially those with mobility or vision issues, Alexa brings a meaningful improvement in quality of life.
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How One Senior Living Organization Tapped Both Facts and Feelings to Dramatically Improve Its Response Times
“Response times were 15, 20, and sometimes 25 minutes. I knew we had to do better.”
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Where Are Your Communities in Making this Consumer-Driven Shift?
From care-based with wellness to wellness-based with care.
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Five Barriers Contributing to Resident Falls That Might Not Be on Your Radar
Even with the best of preparation and skill, falls will happen. Encourage your team to take a proactive approach.
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Hug the Pain Away
I am to my breaking point and I don’t want her to see the pain her words bring me. I do not want to turn my back on her either.
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This Costs Senior Living Communities Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year
Some monstrous food for thought when it comes to programing for senior living.
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Surviving, Thriving, Being Entitled
These are all first world problems that keep us from being our best selves.
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Your Resident’s Enemy . . .
Decline is not the real enemy because it is inevitable.
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Can This Tool Get More Residents Engaged?
The content itself was pretty cool, too. So much so that, only a week after the webinar, 300 residents had registered for 600 activities.
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This One Thing Will Improve Your Family Relationships
Tracking participation, after all, is a requirement. But it’s a hard one to meet if you have to lug around pieces of paper to take notes.
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F-U-N is Not Just the First Three Letters in Funeral. Find the Funny in Everything You Do.
“I take what I do very seriously, but I don’t take myself all that seriously.”
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Healing Wounded Warriors Body and Soul
A practical solution to eliminating the last task caregivers want to complete and to remove the shame and indignity residents often experience
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Can’t Flush This Down the Toilet!
Wearables in the Trash Cans, Under Beds and Flushed Down the Toilet. What’s Wrong Here?
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The Dream Job I Never Got . . .
Some of you are living your dream job. Some of you are really struggling with what to be when you grow up. I kept trying . . . kept getting up every morning looking for the right fit.
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Fighting the Stigma – One Resident at a Time
Some residents seem like a lost cause. But a little compassion can go a long way.
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What Do College Students Have That Older Adults Often Don’t Have?
Why do we open uncapped choices and opportunities to young people, yet begin to slowly take away choice and freedom when adults get older?
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What Would It Take to Make Senior Living Desireable?
We devote a lot of time speaking to each other about how to improve resident care. What would happen if we spent even a fraction of that time listening to the residents themselves?
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At Kendal, Residents Run the Show
We don’t own the communities. We work with them, support them. One of the objectives of Kendal’s communities is to encourage residents to design their own lifestyle.
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