Category: Life Enrichment
Capital Ideas: Where’s the Money?
Rethinking senior living for the decades ahead requires imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. Creative financing is part of this.
Read MoreThe Most Important Thing Senior Living Sells
If you were to ask me about the senior living unique value proposition, I would tell you without hesitation that it is the ability to create community.
Read MoreThink Accreditation Isn’t Important? Think Again.
Arrow Senior Living is the Four Sixes (Yellowstone) of senior living. Here’s what propelled them to the top.
Read MoreCelebrating Activity Professionals Week
Time to reflect on the importance of “activities” in senior living … Tip – Stop talking about activities, start talking about impact!
Read MoreShould Senior Living Be Fun?
What if we promoted senior living as a fun place to go and hang out? Because in reality we all like fun. We all need fun.
Read MoreThe Gift of Giving
During the holidays, give to yourself the same gift of indulgence that you give to others. Love yourself so others can love you.
Read MoreThe Joy of Aging [Part 2 of 3]
Old age comes with the blessing of freedom, but old people face anxiety just as do people of all ages.
Read MoreIf You Could Design the Perfect Engagement Platform
What if a magic genie appeared at your senior living community and asked, “What wishes may I grant you that will make your job, and your life, easier?”
Read MoreIs Nonprofit Form Compatible With Market-Priced CCRCs?
Building and expanding CCRCs is a capital-intensive business, and nonprofits have limited access to capital.
Read MoreA 9MM Luger Inspires a Passion for Senior Living
The connection between these two experiences …. It was these life experiences that drove my decision to make senior living my career.
Read MoreEncounters With Sports
There are two sides to the sport of business. The most fun is to be the innovator. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.
Read MoreResults Are In: Winners of Caring Stars Awards
Who made the list? In our industry, that means one thing: The 2023 Caring Stars senior living awards. And they’re out!
Read MoreThings That Need to Change … in Senior Living
I went to LinkedIn and asked the question. The comments blew up the platform.
Read MoreCan Clinical Medicine Make Senior Living More Attractive?
Integrating clinical practice into senior living offers an opportunity for revenue growth while providing a highly desirable public service.
Read MoreWhen It Comes to Memory Care, Activities Are the Gamechanger
Those with memory loss often pose a challenge for staff, so coming up with a unique strategy helped plan successful activities.
Read MoreWhy Does This Trash Bag Not Fit Properly?
Do you ever feel like the approach and services in senior living just do not “fit” right? This piece of the industry must radically change.
Read MoreIs There Really a Middle Market Senior Living Problem?
Most Americans (age 75+) are stuck in the middle, meaning they won’t have enough financial resources to live in the current senior living product.
Read MoreGrowing Old Ain’t for Sissies
We deal with life’s changes, particularly less pleasant ones, by talking about them, by laughing about them. That is not ageism. That is life.
Read MoreSenior Living Is Stultifyingly Boring …
I asked one of the founders of Meow Wolf, “What would a senior living community you would design look like?” He starts off with ”It’s gonna be fun.”
Read More8,197 Days Left in My Life
What really counts is going to be very different for each person, and will not be the same moment to moment, week to week, and month to month.
Read MoreReflections on Pioneer Network 2022
It challenged my comfort level. And for a guy who showed up in bright-colored Chucks with light-up laces, you would think I would be in my element.
Read MoreRethinking the Cost of Unpaid Caregivers
Don’t resent the old, who gave you life. They too were your age and more soberingly, you will, sooner than you think be their age.
Read MoreCould Volunteers Help With the Staffing Crisis?
This is what happens when we talk about volunteering, but don’t do much about it. Now, this needs to change.
Read MoreOld Guy Travel Notes
Most SLF readers also know that travel in the summer of 2022 is “complicated.” And can also experience the simple phrase “expect the unexpected.”
Read MoreVintage Life
Each of us has a choice to see aging as a decline or a human continuum of positive ways we can enjoy on this ride we call life.
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