Category: Life Enrichment
10 Ways to Get Residents to Like Your Weird Dining Ideas
As with anybody else, itโs not that residents wouldnโt enjoy something different, itโs just that communities have to figure out how to make it enticing.
Read MoreA Memory Care Revamp?
Memory care is what some of our loved ones call home, and home is what it needs to feel like. It’s time we put ourselves in our residents’ shoes for once.
Read More8 Doable Dining Ideas Your Residents Will Eat Up
There was talk โ and angst โ about getting buy-in from staff and residents when introducing new ideas. But here are a few experiments that went over well!
Read MoreA Radical Way to Transform Activities
Planned activities are important, but activities also need to be at the personal level, because residents are at the forefront of senior living.
Read More5 Ways Senior Dining Beats Commercial Restaurants, According to Chefs
If you arenโt recruiting dining pros with this messaging, what are you waiting for?
Read MoreThe Same Rain Falls Upon Us All
Do you intrinsically know that adverse incidents in our industry are on the rise? Logically, how could they not be?
Read MoreManipulating the Aging Process
Imagine that senior living became a “longevity spa,” where people came not to decline in comfort but to actually reverse the aging process.ย ย ย
Read More12 Dining Themes Everybody Was Talking About at Synergy
Boring, bland food and tray service are what most people think when you say โsenior living dining.โ Communities are working to change that stigma.
Read MoreWhat If You Trusted Your Residents As Much As They Trust You?
Imagine assuming that your residents want things to be better. It would make your communities more successful and your life less stressful.
Read MoreI Have No Idea What I Want
I am a boomer โ โthat personโ you as a senior living operator are trying to figure out Ask me now what I will want, and I will tell you that โฆ
Read More8 Ways to Update Residents
Face it, residents have embraced technology and want to go green by using less paper. But how, as an industry, do we adapt to residentsโ preferences?
Read MorePoker Is One Long Game. โฆ So Is Senior Living
There are times you simply need to move on, cut your losses, and remember that life, senior living, and poker are each simply one long game that you want to win.
Read MoreThree Years Ago โฆ
I am still angry. โฆ Not angry. Whatโs the word for, โThis was wrong, and theyโll never admit it?โ
Read MoreCould We Learn to Get Better From Southwest Airlines?
Senior living has so much untapped opportunity to figure out how to make the resident and team member experience better.ย ย
Read MoreLife Enrichment Could Be So Much More Tantalizing
This is clearly the life boomers want. The big question is this:ย How can we provide this lifestyle but add in the medical part as needed?!ย
Read MoreHas Senior Living Become Health Care?
The biggest challenge is that it means that assisted living and memory care is moving into an arena that was once considered to be skilled nursing.
Read More5 Things I Wish Executive Directors Understood About Activities
Isnโt that the goal of senior living, where residents are at the heart of the community? Making activities a priority helps to transform the culture …
Read MoreIncrease Staff Compensation Like This …
There are ways to increase staff compensation. The other thing an employer can do is reduce the cost of living. This does not get enough attention …
Read MoreA Fantastic Lunch With the Residents
The single biggest challenge is how do we create a product that those who have rejected senior living, will come to love?
Read MoreBring Back Ruthless Joy to Your Job
What if you decided to put the radical, ruthless, unbounded joy back into your job? Use your own ideas, but maybe this will inspire you!
Read MoreRosemary, Dick, and Ruth โ Authentic Love
When we think about love, it is often in the context of head-over-heels romantic love. But true, enduring love is like Rosemary; her husband, Dick; and her mother, Ruth.
Read MoreSenior Living โ The Land of Nobodies …
What a privilege we have to be THE ONES who remember and remind them that they are not nobodies but in fact are somebodies.
Read MorePeople of Senior Living: Confessions of a Stand-Up Comic
I have had two big failures doing comedy, but here is the thing: If you can get through a bombing set, you’re gonna get through anything!
Read MoreThe Startling Scientific Truth About Fall Prevention
As senior living providers we have a responsibility to prevent falls, period! Even prior to someone being identified as a fall risk.
Read MoreCapital Ideas: The Trial Lawyer?
Could senior living, with its commitment to an aging demographic facing potential decline into helplessness? Show America the way to get past today.
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