By Tom Mann, Principal The reasons for growth Watch the recording of our "The Reasons for Growth" webinar featuring experts from LeadingAge, HumanGood, and Asbury! We all know this chart… Credit: US Census and Ziegler … more than 76 million baby boomers will start...
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The Age of Disruption: Life Expectancy, The Truth about Our Future
The most frequently quoted statistics about life expectancy (American men born today can expect to live to 76.5 years, and women can expect to live 81.3 years) are misleading. For those in our fifties, we have already outlasted those who have passed away (they skewed...
The Age of Disruption: The Recruitment Battle for Talent
Ask any senior living leader what keeps him or her up at night, and you’ll quickly hear the words "staff recruitment and retention." In a survey of CFOs by Ziegler, 80% of respondents said it was one of their top concerns for 2018. According to Argentum, senior living...
The Age of Disruption: The Power of Place
By Tom Mann, Principal The power of place When Steve Jobs was designing the headquarters for Pixar, he obsessed over every detail, including where the bathrooms would be placed. In his book, “The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the...
The Age of Disruption: Part I, The Wolf at the Door
By Tom Mann, Principal Throughout the years, Love & Company has strived to provide senior living C-level executives with key industry insights and trends. In this five-part blog series, I will examine how some of the more progressive organizations are preparing...
The Sales Center of the Future… What Will it Look Like?
For many years, the sales centers of senior living communities and home builders have contained similar elements. Floor plans, site plans, architectural renderings and samples of flooring, cabinets and countertops have been available for prospects to view. Often, a...
Is “Senior” Going Boom?!
“The times they are a-changin’,” penned 76-year-old Bob Dylan in the l960s. Interestingly, that’s a very pertinent observation about senior living’s up-and-coming independent living target audience—it’s a-changin’ in oh so many ways. If you’re hoping to entice a...
Culture, People, and Technology – The BB&T Symposium
By Tom Mann, Principal, Executive Vice President I recently attended the 6th Annual BB&T Capital Markets Tax Exempt Symposium which I expected to revolve almost exclusively around the financial side of senior living. Turns out I was wrong. Very wrong. Instead,...
2018 International Builders Show: Smart Home Technology Takes a Massive Jump Forward
By Rob Love, President, CEO In January of 2017, I visited the International Builders Show in Orlando and was impressed by how far smart home technology had progressed. As one presenter noted, Amazon’s Alexa had become “the gateway drug to smart home technology.” So,...
Six Senior Living Trends for 2018 and Beyond
By Tom Mann, Principal, Executive Vice President If you are a regular reader of The Leaders’ Board, you’ve had the opportunity to read predictions of some of the brightest minds in senior living. Now, it’s my turn. Last year, I wrote a well-received white paper titled...
The Top Three Ways Tax Reform Will Impact Your Next Financing
It’s officially 2018 and change is in the air. Iceland has enacted the world’s first equal pay law, Oregonians are now allowed to occasionally pump their own gas, and this little thing called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is in effect. First initiated by the House on...
The Future is Here – And What We Need For Our Communities To Win
Our Competitor Is Fueling Up...2018 is the Year Staying at home has long been our industry's main competitor. The average age of our residents has jumped up, thanks largely to the blossoming of non medical home care agencies which enable safe aging in place...at home....


