By Kayla Caw, Content Marketing Manager Last January, Rob Love attended both the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and the International Builders Show in Orlando. He found that the Consumer Electronics Show had little to offer to senior living leaders. However,...
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A “Growing” Trend in Senior Living: Green Communities
Boomers pushed the country towards its first environmental awakening, leading to the first Earth Day in 1970. While many of the issues they raised were ignored in the booming 80s, they have now resurfaced due to the increased concern of climate change. Today, many of...
4 Reasons for Senior Living CEOs to Attend the 2018 International Builders Show
By Rob Love, President, CEO This past month, I visited two major, non-senior living conferences: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and the National Association of Home Builders International Builders Show (IBS) in Orlando. My goal was simple: In the...
Senior Living CEOs: Plan Now to Attend the 2018 International Builders Show
By Rob Love, President and CEO After spending the last two weeks exploring first the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, then the International Builders Show (IBS) in Orlando, my advice to senior living CEOs is succinct: Don’t even think about attending the...
My “Star of the Show” Award Goes to Rev-A-Shelf
Of all the fascinating products and technology I saw at the International Builders Show (#IBS2017) in Orlando, my favorite was a line of cabinet hardware offered by Rev-A-Shelf. These innovative thinkers have derived a variety of ways to make the contents of your...
This Conference Will Probably Cost Me Tens of Thousands of Dollars!
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...
“What’s Next?” for Senior Living, Round 2: The International Builders Show
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...
Senior Living is Not Sexy Enough for CES 2017
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...
Will Alexa be the “Gateway Drug” for Seniors and Smart Home Technology?
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...
Senior Housing Trends: Part IV
Senior Housing Healthcare and Housing Technology Trends By Tom Mann, Executive Vice President In the fourth installment of our Senior Housing Trends Series, we will be looking at the future of health care and home technology as it relates to retirement communities....
Life Plan Community—New name. New conversation.
By Marcia Lusk, Associate Creative Director, Sr. Copywriter As the term Life Plan Community becomes the new normal in senior living nomenclature, it occurs to me: The language we use to tell each community’s unique and special story will need to evolve as well....
Small Spaces: The Key to an Affordable Life Plan Community?
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...