Category: Life Enrichment
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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Are You Giving Residents a Half-Baked Holiday?
For those of you who celebrated the Christmas holidays growing up, what stands out in your memory? Why should aging seniors have to leave all that behind when they enter an assisted living community?
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Is Senior Living Solving a Non Existent Problem . . . a Scary Question?
Several companies promote the value proposition of curing the loneliness epidemic in elders. But is there one?
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Everyone Poops!
Going to the toilet is a solo endeavor, private and personal. With a push of a button or staff assistance with a remote control, our residents can maintain their independence.
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Bay Village of Sarasota Got an App That Residents Can’t Stop Downloading
When your 102-year old resident pulls out his iPad to access an app, you know you have something special on your hands.
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Accepting Me
Alzheimer’s is a horrible disease that can be hard to face at times. But we can still provide joy to those suffering, and maybe learn something from them as well.
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Do These Two Values Condemn Senior Living?
No one wants to move into senior living. What would senior living need to look like for you?
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Should You Be Using Tinder for Market Research?
What do seniors want? David Stewart turns to tinder to find the answers.
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The Missing 20 Years in the Life of an Adult
At age 75, the world wakes up and celebrates all that older adults have to offer the world! So, what happened to the 20 years between age 55 and age 75?
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Balancing Safety with Independence, Personal Choice, and Dignity
A journalist contends that the idea that we all can be independent and self-sufficient until we die is pure fantasy. It’s time for a discussion, not judgment.
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Insights from Lori La Bey: ‘The #1 Online Influencer about Alzheimer’s’
SLF interviews Lori La Bey, a leading educator in dementia care. “How do you shift that level of trust?”
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