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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

This is what happens when we talk about volunteering, but don’t do much about it. Now, this needs to change.

Most SLF readers also know that travel in the summer of 2022 is “complicated.” And can also experience the simple phrase “expect the unexpected.”

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.

They may have an insecure laugh or quietly keep to themselves. They may never be noticed or seen as nuisances. They are mostly lonely.

I belong to a CNA Facebook group titled “CNA’s are AWESOME” and came across this story that continues to make me smile days after I read it. 

Artis is not a philosophy of care. It’s a philosophy of interactions. “It’s how we want leadership, associates, & residents to interface with one another.”

Life enrichment leaders who are treated that way should QUIT! Life is too short to put up with this. There are great companies that really care.

Rejection is painful, especially when it’s not warranted. We all can benefit from burning our rejection letters.

The theme was “bold,” a timely message for an industry just emerging from the pandemic to find a world of change.

A friend sent an article that suggests traditional stand-alone senior living will be replaced by new intergenerational models, and I am a fan of the idea.

Hearing is a challenge that is readily addressable, and in the process, addressing it can improve senior living for everyone.

If a middle ground is found between the extremes of price, then more people are able to have the benefits that corrected hearing can bring into their lives.

Creating the senior living experience is primarily up to culinary and life enrichment and yet they are separate departments one tiny and one huge.

A proactive approach to hearing, to enable residents to live fuller, purposeful lives, generates a much more positive image of senior living.