Category: Life Enrichment
Poker Is One Long Game. … 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 …
I am still angry. … Not angry. What’s the word for, “This was wrong, and they’ll never admit it?”
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.
Read MoreLife Enrichment Could Be So Much More Tantalizing
This is clearly the life boomers want. The big question is this: How can we provide this lifestyle but add in the medical part as needed?!
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
Isn’t 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 — 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 — 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.
Read MoreIs It Too Harsh to Say This View Is Obscene?
What gets missed is that the community has become this massive demotivator. Why should these residents do anything to help get the building full?
Read MoreDo These Words and Phrases Make You Want to Scream?
A lot of buzzwords are being used nowadays, and it got me thinking … what are the most used and annoying terms/words we use in senior living?
Read MoreFree Photos — a Shameless Lesson From Disney
Think about the photos that didn’t get taken, or the photos that did get taken by family members and friends. So many missed opportunities.
Read MoreReady or Not, We’re All First Responders
You may think you’re prepared. You may think this won’t happen to you. But odds are you’re not. And it can happen to you.
Read MoreCNAs Spill: 5 Things We Really, Really Need
Can you imagine how serving your caregivers in these ways would grow your community? How many other chronic issues would you solve?
Read More4 Simple Ways To Involve Family Caregivers
Family caregivers can play an important role in senior living, if we let them. Here are four simple ways to involve them.
Read MoreCapital 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.
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