What is critical for me is this big idea that “the peak of my life has not arrived yet.” What if we assumed the same about residents?

A really good question with a complicated answer. Should we be challenging the assumption that residents have passed all their peaks?

Observations regarding the actual condition and experience of those living through Alzheimer’s. What is really happening inside their minds?

It’s been a tough year for all of us. Give yourself some compassion and forgiveness and know that it’s okay to take care of yourself.

This last week I came to this shocking realization. I am 66, by some people’s measure and elderly person. Do I seem elderly?

Ken Dychtwald offers four flavors of aging. This is sort of right, but it’s more like four paths. Which one are you on?

Each of us has voices that run constantly through our heads. It is how we are wired. Here’s how to use it to help with stress.

There is lots of advice about self-care going around right now. But is inward self-care really the key to reducing stress?

What would happen in your community if your “life enrichment” leader were instead the “head meaning maker”?

College Senior Emma Meads describes her path to senior living as a career choice. She shares what she likes and what she’d like to change.

The time of celebration is close at hand. We can congratulate ourselves. We are emerging into the warmth of renewed purpose.

Residents are the reason for senior living. They should be full partners, members in our mission of making life fulfilling.

Want to increase your bottom line? It’s about the experience. Deliver the experience, and the money (occupancy) will not be a challenge.

Ashton Applewhite explains how she thought if it was self-deprecating it was okay. But she learned, it’s not okay.

infections and death rates are plunging. And yet regulators and even senior living executives are reluctant to move back to normal.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be old? The dream was the reconciliation of my loss and regrets.

We all need a snow day once in a while. A day where we cancel everything and go play in the snow, whatever your version of that is.

A feel-good story about a teenager who felt terrible about senior living residents who were isolated from family and friends.

This video has gone viral, butI found myself thinking . . . If that is what I have to look forward to when I am 85, just shoot me.

This is a human story. And it explains as anything less human in its content cannot, the joys and positives of congregate living.