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By Rob Love, President, CEO I came to the 2017 International Builders Show (IBS) looking for ideas to enhance what senior living communities can offer prospects in the years to come. But, as I walked through the exhibits, I stopped thinking about "seniors" and became...
By Rob Love, President CEO After last week’s highly entertaining—yet somewhat disappointing—trip to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I’m off this week for Round 2 of my journey to discover “What’s Next” for senior living: The International Builders Show...
By Rob Love, President and CEO I came to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, excited to see where technology is going and how we can apply it in senior living. And now I’m leaving, feeling that—once again—seniors just aren’t sexy enough to warrant...
By Rob Love, President, CEO The dramatic recent growth in wearables has resulted in a corresponding dramatic growth in a variety of health and wellness data. But what is happening with that data? The answer, according to panelists in a couple of lifestyle and...
By Rob Love, President, CEO The biggest challenge to consumer adoption of smart home technology has been ease of use, according to a panel of Honeywell, Whirlpool, Ring and Samsung technology experts at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. But the Amazon Echo (better...
Consumer Electronics Show and International Builders Show to Shed Insights By Rob Love, President, CEO As another year begins, we find ourselves asking, “What’s next”? More specifically, “What’s next for senior living?” At Love & Company, that’s a question that...
By Rob Love, President, CEO It’s been nearly a year since ‘Life Plan Community’ was unveiled at LeadingAge in Boston as the new brand category name for continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), and I’m both pleased and excited to see the significant traction the...
By Rob Love, President I was talking with the CEO of a Life Plan Community recently, and he told me how his community’s master planning process had come to a screeching halt. He had spent months working with an architect and a development consultant to create options...
By Rob Love, President For years, I’ve had a growing concern that you simply can’t build a new life plan community that is affordable to the moderate-income market. But at this year’s LeadingAge conference in Boston, I saw the germ of an idea that could hold...
By Rob Love, President & CEO Two major hurdles senior living organizations face when it comes to growing and maintaining their census are 1) prospects’ perceptions of what it means to live in a senior living community, and 2) their impression of the communities...
By Rob Love, President, CEO What are the greatest challenges Broadmead faces as you plan for the future? While Broadmead has had a great reputation in the Baltimore market for many years, we realized that many facets of our physical plant and amenities had fallen...
By Rob Love, President, CEO In the senior living field, the term “continuing care retirement community” is ubiquitous. Continuing. Care. Retirement. Community. When broken down into separate words, the negative connotations we as senior living professionals have spent...
