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By Karen Adams, VP of Market Intelligence Continuously emerging complexities in the models of senior living have led some to conclude that market research is best relegated to a quick, initial and sometimes internal overview with the heavy lifting of filling...
Guest blog by Ryan Frederick, Founder and CEO at SmartLiving 360 A strategic plan provides direction, focus and an immediate path for action. In addition, the process of developing a strategic plan aligns a senior living organization’s key stakeholders, including...
By Karen Adams, VP of Market Intelligence I review market studies—ours and others’—on a continual basis, typically because someone asks for our thoughts on work they’ve had done, they need a report updated, or I am finalizing one of our own studies. I started...
By Karen Adams, Love & Company’s Vice President of Market Intelligence. Prior to joining Love & Company, Karen had the privilege of being Maria’s business partner at GSI for more than 30 years. For those in the field of aging Maria Dwight was an icon: a...
By Christine Carruthers, Vice President, Health Services Marketing Earlier this year, I went to the annual Argentum (formerly ALFA) conference, where I attended a session featuring a panel discussion about senior prospects, their adult children, and what they each...
Today, more than ever, seniors and their families are researching senior housing options online. Your prospects are heading to Google, searching terms like “assisted living,” “independent living,” and “nursing home,” and comparing their options. They may be...
By Karen Adams, VP of Market Intelligence Senior living trends discussions are exciting, tantalizing and hold promise for new ways of addressing our aging issues. Trends are sirens for existing senior living communities as they plan their futures, rearrange...
By Karen Adams, VP of Market Intelligence The competitive landscape of senior living has changed dramatically during the last two and a half decades with the rapid development of assisted living (AL) and the continued growth and repositioning of continuing care...
Since the title of this blog leads with the term “anatomy,” it may be helpful to interchange “assessment” with “examination.” That interchange helps with the analogy of how we care for our personal health and how we take care of our business’ health. We have regular...
By Clara Daly, Interactive Communications Director My parents, boomers, have always had an interest in technology. They’ve lived and traveled all over the world, remember giant CRT monitors, and used endless floppy disks to save single documents. I've been able to...
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 Tom Mann, Principal, Executive Vice President Selling to boomers or seniors? In the last blog of this series, we talked about The Principle of Consistency. Today, we're going to talk about The Principle of Liking. People are ready to be persuaded by people they...
