Category: Life Enrichment
What I Am Reminded of . . .
my head is a jumble with good, creative, grateful thoughts like these. When you reflect, what do you think about?
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Do You Really Care? Empathy Training for Staff
Is technology the solution?
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Where’d All the TP Go?
Many individuals and institutions are stocking up on toilet paper, literally leaving retail and wholesale shelves empty.
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What Happens When You Ask Residents About Using Apps?
What can residents tell us about technology? In a word, plenty.
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Why You Should Care About Loneliness During COVID-19
Why staying connected is not just a nice thing to do but a necessity for one’s overall health and well-being
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Six Ways to Approach the Food Critics in Your Community
Some suggestions on how the whole team can achieve the goal of indirectly satisfying resident concerns about dining.
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How An Extraordinary Partnership Resulted in Happier, Healthier, Safer Residents
It’s about the planning, goal-setting, person-centered approach, and partnership that creates the brightest results.
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What If You Could Stop Pain Up Front? – This is Fantastic
Since we’ve all experienced pain, this should really hit home for all of us.
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How to Create the Best Life Enrichment Program in The Country . . .
What kind of impact would we have on those growing older if we were really good at solving the loneliness problem?
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The Perfect Senior Living Guest Apartment Experience
I have experienced pretty good to awful but never once spectacular until this past week.
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Who Cares?
Let’s make living and thriving in senior living communities more fun for caregivers with greater dignity for residents.
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It’s All in the Story You Tell
Facts are facts. Images and stories make them come alive.
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The Senior Living Dining Revolution . . .
There is no better time for socializing, building and maintaining relationships than breaking bread together.
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This Is an Alexa “Skill” You Need to Know About
For older adults, especially those with mobility or vision issues, Alexa brings a meaningful improvement in quality of life.
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How One Senior Living Organization Tapped Both Facts and Feelings to Dramatically Improve Its Response Times
“Response times were 15, 20, and sometimes 25 minutes. I knew we had to do better.”
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Where Are Your Communities in Making this Consumer-Driven Shift?
From care-based with wellness to wellness-based with care.
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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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