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Life Plan Community—New name. New conversation.

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....

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Enjoying the Many Holidays Which Fill Out Your Year

Enjoying the Many Holidays Which Fill Out Your Year

By Ann Burnside Love You’ve been retired for a while. You’re doing well, or you’re doing less than well, but managing. Possibly you’re thinking about, or wanting, or needing to make a change to a community where your life will be more comfortable, safer, and where...

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Planning to Age in Place? But Which Place?

Planning to Age in Place? But Which Place?

By Ann Burnside Love My friend Marjorie and I, during the same month, signed onto the waiting list for the retirement community I now live in, two and a half years before our names came up on the list for our apartments. When I got the call that a residence was...

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20 Reasons I’m Thankful to Live in a Retirement Community

20 Reasons I’m Thankful to Live in a Retirement Community

By Ann Burnside Love • At a retirement community, someone else cleans my apartment regularly, changes my bed linen, and recycles my newspapers. (If this sounds wonderful, it is.) After certain breaks in health, I really can't do many of these things. And I'm most...

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Small Spaces: The Key to an Affordable Life Plan Community?

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...

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I’m Living in a Media Center! Who Knew?

I’m Living in a Media Center! Who Knew?

By Ann Burnside Love We’re not to call libraries “libraries” any more. They are now media centers doing much more than housing books. I know this is true truth, because two of my daughters-in-law are media center coordinators in public schools. One works in an...

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What Made You Decide to Move to a Senior Living Community?

What Made You Decide to Move to a Senior Living Community?

By Ann Burnside Love For this week’s blog, I introduced myself to some new neighbors, and asked them why they decided to move into a senior living community like the one I call home. He says: “We had accumulated all these things together during our marriage. We were...

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Arriving By the Back Door

Arriving By the Back Door

By Ann Burnside Love This story is about the unexpected way I moved into the beautiful retirement apartment I now call home. As a hint — although my daughter and I had planned every detail together — when the day came I never even saw the moving crew.  Yes, I was...

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