HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
TECHNOLOGY
What Senior Living Misses About Resident Tech
The underlying message is clear: older adults aren’t “behind.” They’re exploring — when the on-ramp is built for them.
Learning From Fiction
With the right sensitivity to full disclosure, these emerging AI tools can be very powerful. They also have the potential to mislead.
Innovation For Cognitive Decline
One of the more perplexing challenges of our increased longevity is the growing problem of people with impaired cognition.
DEVELOPMENT
The Life You’re Leading Today Is Exactly Where You’re Meant to Be
Imperfection is what defines the human condition and what creates the opportunity to be better, to be happier, to grow, to change the world.
Rural America Could Solve Senior Living’s Affordability Crisis
The benefits for potential residents are obvious — a great living experience at a much lower cost. For the industry, the list is long…
Communal Origins of Senior Housing
Senior housing has become a business, which makes it easy to forget its beginnings in grassroots efforts by communities of faith.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
I Bet You Didn’t Know …
You spend so much time at work. The same is true with your team members. How much do you really know about them — who they are, what they do?
Learned the Hard Way
Teams get stuck because they keep bumping into the same walls that everyone else already figured out how to get over — they just never said so out loud.
Are You the One Killing Your Culture?
The better question is, how do your leaders make people feel when they walk through the door every morning?
LEADERSHIP
What Do I Need To Stop Believing About Myself? – The Brutal Truth
Most leaders are too impressed with themselves. They tend to be overconfident, certain, unwilling to consider that they might be wrong.
Never Have a Worthless Meeting Again
Most meetings end in conversation. Very few end in action. There’s a difference, and it matters more than most leaders realize.
Education and Training: Leadership Basics
Learning is lifelong and never stops, whether it is credentialed by the awarding of degrees or merely provides the basis for more effective leadership.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
Opening Doors of Hope
The opportunity is to create places where people can say, “I could move there. I could grow there. I could still be me there.”
What Do Residents Want?
What do residents want? They want to be seen. They want to matter. They don’t want to be a nuisance that the corporate office keeps under control.
Family Business: Why Not Collaborate?
Family-run senior housing enterprises tend to emphasize the resident experience long before tax status. Family reputation is at stake.
SALES & MARKETING
Is Your Pricing Fair? Do You Deliver Value?
If providers are so money-driven that the pricing is unfair, then it’s hardly a business with the integrity to become a lifelong companion.
The NVIDIA Secret Senior Living Refuses to Steal (But Should)
This approach to creating and marketing products is why they are the most valuable publicly traded company IN THE WORLD.
Tours Are Theater. Families Still See The Truth.
For nearly twenty years, one thing has felt inevitable: when boomers reach “old age,” senior living demand will surge. And yet …
FORESIGHT RADIO
S8E9- The Small Things Are Everything: Amy Birkel on Senior Living Culture, Leadership & Workforce Retention
“I hope we’re a destination people want to come to and don’t feel like they have to.”
FORESIGHT TV
Disrupting the Script: Why Senior Living Needs Raw Authenticity
Steve Moran and Peter Murphy Lewis explore how storytelling can humanize the caregiving experience for residents, families, and staff.