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Are You Only Serving Good Food?
To stay competitive, senior living must evolve dining programs to adapt to new expectations with branding, efficiency, technology and safety.
The Business Case for Intergenerational Living and Learning Communities
Reimagining senior housing and higher education, intergenerational campuses offer synergy, purposeful living and positive change. Opportunity abounds.
Board Education is Critical to Strategic Planning for Senior Living
It’s a challenge to have productive discussions around the need for capital investment to improve non-revenue-generating amenities to stay competitive in the marketplace. Learn more about what Tad Melton has to say about the importance of board education.
How to Lay the Foundation for an Effective Strategic Planning Process
For many years, senior living organizations faced similar challenges, and most developed a ‘bag of tricks’ to address them—proven strategies that could be deployed to get the organization through inevitable rough spots.
Using Technology to Improve the Employee Experience
By Peter Corless, EVP of Enterprise Development, OnShift For as long as I’ve been involved in the senior living field, I’ve seen workforce challenges. Over the years, there have been ebbs and flows, but COVID-19 exacerbated many of the pre-existing issues and placed...
Community Culture: Your Key to Solving Staffing Challenges
By Denise Boudreau, President, Drive Staffing and workforce issues are certainly among the most important challenges facing senior living organizations today. Yet some communities aren’t nearly as affected as others. I have friends in the field who have said to me, “I...
How Can Single-Site Senior Living Providers Tackle 2 Major Challenges Facing Them in 2022: Labor and Consolidation?
By Rob Love, President & CEO at Love & Company and Chris Keysor, President & CEO at Lenbrook The recent webinar, “Focus on 2022: Insights and Strategies for a Successful Year,” addressed how Life Plan Communities can rebound after two challenging years and...
Life Plan Communities Are Primed for Growth. Here Are 3 Sparks to Moving Forward Boldly in 2022.
By Tommy Brewer, Managing Director at Ziegler and Mario McKenzie, Partner at CliftonLarsonAllen In Love & Company’s recent webinar presentation, “Focus on 2022: Insights and Strategies for a Successful Year,” one of the main topics that we discussed was growth....
A Middle Market Playbook
By Melissa Andrews, President and CEO, LeadingAge Virginia In December 2017, LeadingAge Virginia convened a Cabinet with the charge of developing a community prototype(s) that successfully serves the mature middle market. The primary challenge to the Cabinet was, “How...
Which Senior Living Amenities Will Attract The Boomer Generation?
Guest article by Michael J. Martin, AIA, Partner, RLPS Architects As the senior living field continues to evolve to meet the incoming influx of boomers, a key question is, “What amenities will our communities need to offer to attract the boomer generation?” Will they...
Senior Living Design Alternatives to Evolve Beyond Pandemic Influences
From an operational perspective, 2020 and early 2021 were an “all hands on deck” endeavor for Life Plan Communities. As we are transitioning out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is inspiring to see that many senior living providers are already thinking ahead to how they...