Category: Life Enrichment
Life Enrichment is Senior Living Business
Want to increase your bottom line? It’s about the experience. Deliver the experience, and the money (occupancy) will not be a challenge.
Read MoreHealth and Wellness: The Power Duo That’s Transforming Communities
As we dig out from a horrific year, you might ask yourselves what you’re digging out to. Hopefully not back to a pre-pandemic, 2019 playbook.
Read MoreWatch Your Words – Ageism Is A Two-Way Street
Ashton Applewhite explains how she thought if it was self-deprecating it was okay. But she learned, it’s not okay.
Read MoreIs It Time for Senior Living to Engage in Serious and Significant Civil Disobedience?
infections and death rates are plunging. And yet regulators and even senior living executives are reluctant to move back to normal.
Read MoreMourning Dreams
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be old? The dream was the reconciliation of my loss and regrets.
Read MoreDo You Need A Freaking Awesome Snow Day?
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.
Read MoreCrazy Socks and Senior Living – A Story That Will Warm the Cockles of Your Heart
A feel-good story about a teenager who felt terrible about senior living residents who were isolated from family and friends.
Read MoreWhen I Hate the Content Everyone Else Loves
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.
Read MoreBreak the Loneliness Barrier (Before It’s Too Late!)
There’s an entire population of seniors sitting in isolation, waiting for COVID to end and/or for their vaccinations to kick in.
Read More“Life in the Old Folks Home”: A Very Personal Story
This is a human story. And it explains as anything less human in its content cannot, the joys and positives of congregate living.
Read MoreAre You Tired of Hearing About “The New Normal”? Here’s What Comes Next
People’s needs and perceptions of safety, connection, and hospitality have changed. It’s time we look ahead, to the “Next Normal”.
Read More4 Life Enrichment Trends You MUST Embrace
It’s time to pay attention to these 2021 trends that will make your community the best option for older adults in your area.
Read MoreNew Report Reveals Ugly Truths and Great Opportunities
We shouldn’t need a report to tell us this. The results force us to confront some inconvenient truths about our residents in senior living.
Read MoreThe Fatal Decision to Chase Happiness
The leadership lesson here is to be very careful about what you are chasing; to make sure what you are chasing will actually make you happy.
Read MoreHow to Thrive in the Middle of a Pandemic
It has been a tough year for pretty much everyone. It is, however, possible to thrive in the middle of a pandemic, and here is how.
Read MoreBob’s Special Day: A Christmas Fantasy
Christmas brings promise and hope, restores family, and lifts our spirit. Even in the depths of the Great Depression. Even in a year of pandemic upheaval.
Read MoreAdopt A Nurse – Adopt A Senior Living Frontline Worker
Oh, how I wish I had thought of this! This is a missed opportunity to highlight the amazing commitment our frontline workers have.
Read MoreMaybe the Cruise Industry Has Something To Teach Us After All
I hate it when people describe living in senior living as being just like living on a cruise ship. But there are some lessons we can learn.
Read MoreYour Residents Survived COVID: Or Did They?
By Susan Saldibar Amid the tremendous loss of lives related to COVID, we crave stories of older...
Read MoreHow to Set Your Table for a Different (Weird) Holiday Season
This year will be different. All eyes are on senior living communities and with it comes the pressure to perform.
Read MoreBirds Do It, Bees Do It, Residents Do It Too . . . Don’t They?
A crucial and often overlooked element of healthy living is the heart. I am speaking of romantic love and intimacy. Residents need love too.
Read MoreIf You Can’t Send Them Home, Why Not Give Them More Connection?
This is a tough year, and we know it. No amount of merrymaking can replace what your residents and families really want: To be together.
Read MoreThe Email Every Senior Living Owner and Operator Needs to Read
There is a lot of talk coming from executives who are actually in a position to create something new. So why aren’t we seeing anything new?
Read MoreLife Empowerment for the 2020s
Our world has changed forever. The shock of COVID has given us distress but also the rapid change to make the 2020s a decade of opportunity.
Read MoreShould Senior Living Fear the New Biden Administration?
Could a member of Biden’s coronavirus taskforce be a threat to seniors over 75? Hopefully not, but its something to keep an eye on.
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