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    The Citizenship Model: Redefining Purpose in Senior Living

    Imagine a world where senior living communities buzz with purpose, where 85-year-olds wake up each morning asking,...

    8 AI Tips for Senior Living Leaders

    In a recent talk at the Senior Living Innovation Forum, best-selling author and AI strategist Alison McCauley shared...

    Middle Market Mirage? Senior Living CEOs Discuss State of Industry

    At the recent Senior Living Innovation Forum, industry leaders pulled no punches in a candid discussion about the...

    Why Arrow Senior Living Builds Its Own Tech

    Long before Stephanie Harris became CEO of Arrow Senior Living, she was a turnaround consultant focusing on the senior...

    Legendary VC Alan Patricof on Redefining Aging and Investing

    At last month's Senior Living Innovation Forum (SLIF), 89-year-old Alan Patricof offered a unique perspective that only...

    6 Crucial Questions Bob Kramer Says Senior Living Must Answer

    When Bob Kramer spoke at SLIFin 2021, he questioned whether the industry was bold enough to meet the challenges it was...

    Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen Advocate for Brain Health at SLIF

    In a departure from their usual comedic roles, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen brought a different kind of passion...

    Are Salespeople About to Become Extinct?

    At the Senior Living Innovation Forum, John Larricia, CEO of Welcome Home Software, posed a thought-provoking question:...

    Serenbe's Vision for Intergenerational Harmony

    Imagine a place where the golden years are not just comfortable but vibrant and full of life. This is the vision of...

    Why Senior Living Operators Fail (and How They Can Succeed)

    As he opened his presentation at the Senior Living Innovation Forum in Napa, California, Dwayne J. Clark warned the...

    SkillSpring: A Model Workforce Program for Senior Living

    When Dr. Jeffrey Farber, President and CEO of The New Jewish Home, took the stage at the Senior Living Innovation...

    Driving a Culture of Accountability in Senior Living

    How can senior living providers instill a culture that empowers teams, focuses on the individual, and strives for...

    For Senior Housing Leaders, the Next 10 Years Are Everything

    As senior housing providers gear up for a decade of seismic transformation, four industry leaders joined forces at SLIF...

    One (Wild) Man's Cross-Country Senior Living Adventure

    In 2022, Jack York of iN2L fame came to SLIF and told us he was going to spend the next year driving around the country...

    How Senior Living Can Recruit from Different Generations

    The so-called Great Resignation of 2021 and 2022 had dire ramifications for senior living and many other industries,...

    Senior Living's ESG Wake-Up Call is Getting Louder

    The time has come for senior living providers to embrace ESG principles, according to Lynne Katzmann, CEO of Juniper...

    The Future of Senior Living is Experience

    At the Senior Living Innovation Forum, healthcare experience design leader Lindsey Mosby issued a challenge: "Lead with...

    Senior Living and Higher Ed - An Intergenerational Match

    At first glance, senior living communities and universities seem unlikely partners—one's mission centers on caring for...

    How to Make Calculated Tech Investments in Senior Living

    It takes equal parts clarity and courage for senior living operators to leverage new technologies effectively. Not only...

    Senior Living's Responsibility to Coordinate Resident Healthcare

    In healthcare, the term triple aim refers to the threefold goal of improving population health, improving the...

    Rethinking the Role of Place in Senior Living

    When longevity expert Ryan Frederick, Founder & CEO of Here, argues that place is essential to a healthy life, he...

    How AI Will Transform Senior Living

    Like pretty much everyone else in the world, we at SLIF have been blown away by recent advancements in generative...

    Tackling Debt, Turnover, and AI in Senior Living

    The senior living industry can’t catch a break. With the worst of the pandemic behind them, operators now face the...

    What Senior Living Can Learn from Music App Shazam

    Before it was an app you could use to identify music, Shazam was a number you called from a pre-smartphone mobile...

    Why Senior Living’s Workforce Problem is Really a Culture Problem

    The senior living industry doesn’t have a workforce problem: it has a culture problem. So argues Denise Boudreau,...

    What Will Senior Living Look Like in 2033?

    The last three years have been transformative for the senior living industry, which rose admirably to face an endless...

    Bob Kramer on Navigating the Third Generation of Senior Living

    When Bob Kramer looks back at the history of senior living, the co-founder and strategic advisor at NIC and principal...

    How OpenAI and ChatGPT Could Transform Senior Living

    ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, can provide personalized recommendations and support for residents...

    What Operators Need to Consider When Acquiring New Communities

    When Priority Life Care took over 17 senior living communities previously operated by Eclipse Senior Living, the Fort...

    Why Stories are Key to Marketing Senior Living

    Once upon a time, in a faraway land called Amelia Island, Florida, a young vacationer accidentally left his beloved...

    What Senior Living Can Learn from Meow Wolf’s Psychedelic Art Experiences

    Like many great stories, the story of visionary art collective Meow Wolf began with a decision to stop waiting for...

    How WELL is Transforming Senior Living

    Earlier this year Enlivant became the first senior living operator to earn the WELL Health-Safety Rating for its entire...

    Why Inclusion is Key to Senior Living’s Future

    It’s not just the Great Resignation. As W Lawson CEO Marvell Adams explained at the Senior Living Innovation Forum in...

    Senior Living Residents Say the Darndest (and Most Inspiring) Things

    In 2019, iN2L co-founder Jack York celebrated two birthdays: his 60th and iN2L’s 20th. This called for more than your...

    Eden Alternative CEO Challenges Senior Living to Embrace Disruption

    The aging services industry could learn from the small northern California town where Patrick Bultema grew up.

    How the World’s Largest Design Firm Approaches Senior Living

    As the world’s largest design firm, Gensler has more than a little experience creating unique buildings. With lengthy...

    How Lifespark Integrates Services to Increase Quality of Life

    Too many seniors get caught up on a roller coaster of health care crises: being hospitalized after a sudden event –...

    Senior Living Leaders Debate The Industry's Future

    The senior living industry proved its ability to adapt to crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic, but it’s not out of the...

    Why the Senior Living Revolution Will Be Individualized

    When Jake Rothstein tried to find a caregiver for his aging grandfather, he kept running into the same problem: there...

    Improve Culture, Solve Labor Issues?

    Building a strong company culture takes a wide-angle lens and an eagle’s eye for detail. It’s a never-ending mission...

    Ideas on How to Solve Senior Living’s Staffing Crisis

    In a recent SLIF MasterMind session, ten senior living executives came together to share how they are addressing the...

    Understanding the Role of Place in Health and Happiness

    When Ryan Frederick, CEO of SmartLiving 360 was completing his MBA at Stanford, he spent a summer working for an...

    Creating a Personalized Model for Senior Living

    There are 76.4 million Baby Boomers living in the US right now, of which 10,000 turn 65 every day. For senior living...

    Senior Living Innovation Forum Expands to Two Events a Year

    It’s estimated that by 2030, the number of Americans residing in senior living communities will double from where it is...

    Why Senior Living Must Undergo a Digital Transformation

    Digital transformation may sound cumbersome, but it’s a necessity for senior housing providers as they look to secure...

    Indoor Air Quality is the Next Frontier in Senior Living

    The senior housing industry has learned many lessons over the last two years, perhaps few more important than the need...

    “We Are Humans Serving Humans”: Debating the Future of Senior Living

    In his talk at the Senior Living Innovation Forum last month, Nexus Insights founder Bob Kramer argued that the...

    Senior Housing Leaders Get Dunked to Raise $$ for Alzheimer's

    At the 2021 Senior Living Innovation Forum, we hosted a Carnival Night sponsored by PointClickCare that featured rides,...

    Is the Senior Living Industry Bold Enough?

    Understaffing. Underfunding. Equipment shortages. Inequalities of every stripe. The pandemic cast a cold spotlight on...

    Delos Announces Senior Living Research Agenda at SLIF

    The policies and protocols of thousands of hotels, office buildings, airports and even schools have been reviewed and...

    How Tech and Common Sense is Bringing Experience Design to Senior Living

    For many senior housing providers, the isolation residents endured during COVID brought the importance of experience...

    How WELL Health-Safety Can Improve Occupancy and Staff Retention

    “Wellness” has become a marketing buzzword in nearly every corner of the consumer products industry, but many of these...

    5 Questions to Ask When Converting Hotels to Senior Housing

    The downturn in the hotel industry following the pandemic has created an opportunity that might just provide an answer...

    5 Steps to Improve Your Community’s Online Reputation

    Before making a large purchase, most consumers are likely to seek the opinions of others, whether trusted friends or...

    Data and Transparency are Key to Occupancy Recovery

    More than three decades in, the senior living industry is prime for a transformation, according to experts in the field.

    Using AI to Reduce Falls and Prevents Hospitalizations

    Early detection of health changes and proactive interventions can help senior living communities reduce the incidents...

    How Organizational Culture Impacts Senior Living Occupancy

    A strong organizational culture is an aspirational goal for many senior housing leaders; something that’s important but...

    Addressing Burnout Among Senior Living Staff

    Ensuring the safety of residents and staff while preserving a semblance of normalcy amid a global pandemic is no easy...

    Entrepreneur Magazine Editor Says Senior Living Must Embrace Change

    Senior living can learn some lessons from other industries on making opportunities out of this moment. In fact, its...

    Can Robotic Furniture Make Urban Senior Living Affordable?

    When it comes to real estate, space is expensive, especially in high-density urban areas. 

    What Can Senior Living Learn from Taco Bell?

    On the surface, Taco Bell and the senior living industry don’t seem to have much in common. Yet, amid the COVID-19...

    How Senior Housing is Adapting to the COVID era

    The COVID-19 pandemic has left its mark on nearly every industry. From hospitality to office spaces to retail, the...

    Here are all the Commercials from SLIF (Almost) Live

    After enduring months of working from home, we knew our community of senior housing leaders might be feeling some...

    It's Time to Build Communities that Put Resident + Staff Health First

    In the slow-moving world of senior housing, COVID-19 has accelerated change in a number of ways, from telehealth to...

    It’s Time to Fight Back and Change the Perception of Senior Living

    The senior housing industry is doing a remarkable job of caring for residents during COVID-19 and it's time for its...

    Bob Kramer weighs in: "COVID-19 is a Transformational Moment"

    At 70, Bob Kramer, the founder of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC), has been busier than...

    Bickford Senior Living Encourages Industry to Be Transparent

    As senior living operators find innovative ways to reunite families and combat loneliness during the COVID-19 crisis,...

    Covia is Helping Seniors throughout the Country Stay 'Well Connected'

    Over a decade ago, long before COVID-19 would drastically alter our world, Covia, (formerly Episcopal Senior...

    Thrive's 'Clear Connection' Panels Safely Connect Loved Ones

    Atlanta-based Thrive Senior Living made the decision to close their communities to outside visitors in response to the...

    Addressing Isolation and Loneliness During COVID-19

    As the nation has transitioned into a 50-state, shelter-in-place lockdown, senior living communities are facing a...

    Lessons from the Gig Economy

    The ever-expanding "gig economy" is having an impact across all industries, even usually slow-to-adapt senior housing,...

    The Importance of Storytelling in Senior Living

    For nearly 18 months, each time a bell rang signaling the start of a meal, a resident of an Iowa senior living...

    4 Ways Senior Living Can Use Experiential Design

    The key to creating brand loyalty is understanding deeply what the consumer wants and giving it to them consistently.

    The Future of Senior Housing + Care / Annual Report

    Will innovations in design and construction and technology transform senior housing over the next decade? 

    What Excites (and Scares) Senior Living Leaders?

    As everyone begins to share their "End of Year" (and "End of Decade") lists we thought it was good timing to share some...

    Songwriter Kevin Griffin Gives Senior Living Leaders Advice on Reinvention

    What does a career singer-songwriter have to tell folks in senior living about how to improve their industry? Plenty,...

    The Future of Senior Housing: Putting People First

    Everyone in senior housing generally agrees that changes—BIG changes—are coming to the industry, and a lot of players...

    How Senior Housing Can Help Solve Our Nation's Healthcare Woes

    Lynne Katzmann, founder and CEO of Juniper Communities, knows what it's like to sit at the kids' table. Growing up, she...

    Insights from Covia’s Rebranding Journey... and how it made them stronger

    It’s not every day that an executive takes the stage at a conference and boldly shares the mistakes his organization...

    5 Insights from Revera's 98 yrs young Chief Elder Officer

    Her supporters gave her the nickname “Hurricane Hazel” in recognition of her outspoken political style during her run...

    How to Make 42% Profit Margin in Senior Housing

    Craig Patnode, President and CEO of Eldermark, believes that senior housing operators are leaving a lot of money on the...

    PointClickCare President Shares Framework for Enabling Innovation

    In an age of accelerating technologies and market disruption, how can senior housing operators stay ahead of the pack?

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    Disruptive Innovation is Coming for Senior Living. Are You Ready?

    Bob Kramer, founder and strategic advisor of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC), refers to...

    Lessons in Innovation from Darryl ''DMC'' McDaniels of Run-DMC

    Life rarely goes according to plan. Just ask Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, of Run-DMC, who never had any intention of getting...

    SLIF Inspires Real Progress in Biggest Gathering to Date

    Now in its fifth year, attracting close to 300 of the biggest players in senior housing alongside the nation’s top...

    Advice for Senior Living Influencers from a Concerned Resident

    When senior living providers gather to envision the future and to share best practices, the voices of those they serve...

    Tech + Staffing Top List of Concerns for SLIF Attendees

    What’s on the minds of most senior housing leaders? With SLIF’19 just a few weeks away, we decided to conduct an...

    Is Co- Living the Best Solution to the Growing Middle Market Challenge?

    You know that co-living, co-housing and other evolving forms of shared living space are officially on the radar when...

    Technology: A Solution for Workforce Challenges?

    As the US economy experiences historically low unemployment rates, talent acquisition and retention remain a top...

    Futurists Say Senior Living Ripe for Disruption

    The senior housing providers that “actively try to put themselves out of business” will be the most successful in 20...

    Bill Thomas Believes Modular Homes are Solution to Middle Market Challenge

    The growing small house movement is one solution to the affordability challenge faced by middle- and lower-income...

    Addressing Behavioral Health in Senior Housing

    The National Institute of Mental Health reports that 15% of U.S. seniors are living with clinical depression with even...

    Could Talent Sharing be a Solution for the Senior Housing Workforce Crisis?

    When Stacey Ferreira, 26, was in high school, she walked down the street and found an after school job with a Brookdale...

    10 Innovators Share Predictions for Future of Senior Housing

    Senior housing providers will be in big trouble if they continue to ignore market demands for better health and...

    The WELL Building Standard and Senior Housing

    When Rick Fedrizzi co-founded the US Green Building Council in 1993, to promote sustainability in the building and...

    Our Most Popular Articles of 2018

    Before we bid adieu to 2018 we’ve rounded up our most popular articles of the past year.

    Taking Design Thinking from Cool Concept to Best Practice

    Over the past few years, Apple, GE, Google, Samsung and many other Fortune 500 companies have adopted a Design Thinking...

    To Attract Teens to Senior Living, Offer a Clear Career Path

    Today’s youth are an altruistic bunch who actually want to help people. However, they prefer making their impact as...

    3 Smarter Ways for Senior Living to Recruit & Retain Talent

    By applying ingenuity and reaching out to Millennials, working parents, teens and younger seniors looking for...

    The Future of Care Coordination in Senior Housing

    Emphasizing the importance of data collection, PHRs and other recent advances, a quartet of senior living leaders...

    How Honor is Using Scale and Technology to Drive Innovation in Home Care

    Honor, a tech company based out of San Francisco, is building a business in an atypical market: senior care. The...

    Tomorrow’s Senior Living Needs to Offer Innovative Experiences

    In a talk that offered fresh insights applicable to senior housing, futurist Brian Solis stressed the essential...

    Senior Living Leaders Come Together to Innovate a Brighter Future

    There are several ways senior living leaders can prepare for the incoming Silver Tsunami, as well as the...

    What Makes a Great Place to Work in Senior Housing?

    The Great Place to Work Institute is an internationally renowned consulting firm that provides research, consulting,...

    What Can Senior Living Learn from Harley-Davidson?

    When 25-year-old Ken Schmidt joined Harley-Davidson in 1985 as their head of communications, some people questioned his...

    SLIF Attendees Share What Excites & Concerns Them About the Future

    When we asked attendees at SLIF18 what concerns and/or excites them about the future of the senior housing...

    SLIF Addresses the Challenge of Innovation vs. Inertia

    In an industry that’s stagnating despite a skyrocketing target demographic, how can senior housing providers jumpstart...

    What Can Senior Living Learn from Airbnb?

    From restaurants to hospitality to IT, businesses across many industries are studying Airbnb’s meteoric rise.

    While the...

    The Next Wave of Mixed-Use Senior Housing Development

    After a generation of isolation in suburban and rural developments, seniors are rebelling, demanding residential...

    What Can Senior Living Learn from Marriott?

    Since it acquired Starwood Hotels & Resorts in 2016, Marriott International has become the world’s largest hotel chain,...

    Why Every Senior Living Leader Should Be Focused on Experience Design

    Speaking at a recent conference, HumanGood’s Chief Strategy Officer Dan Hutson asked his audience, “How many of you are...

    What Can Senior Living Learn From Chick-fil-A?

    If senior living could take just one lesson from Chick-fil-A, it should be this—focus like a laser beam on the hiring...

    Is the Co-living Model Ready to Make its Mark on Senior Living?

    Popular in Europe and urban centers around the world, the concept of co-living is slowly gaining traction in North...

    Using Universal Design to Create Accessible Senior Housing

    Since a falling tree left Rosemarie Rossetti in a wheelchair two decades ago, she and husband Mark Leder have been...

    Latitude Margaritaville - Defining a 55-70 Niche

    Less golf, more fun in the sun. That’s one of the demands of the active 55-70 year-olds filling up two Latitude...

    Insights from Aegis, Senior Living’s Best Place to Work

    Seattle-based Aegis Living is the inspiration of entrepreneur Dwayne J. Clark, known for creating a nurturing work...

    7 Leaders Share Predictions for the Future of Senior Living

    In the next 20 years, millions of Baby Boomers will be 80 or older, pondering their next moves. For some, the obvious...

    Resident Writes Book on How to Improve Senior Living

    When Sue Petrovski’s husband began showing signs of dementia, they made the decision to move out of their home of many...

    How Understanding Generational Differences Can Boost Occupancy & Staff Recruitment

    Understanding different generations is essential to effective resident engagment and employee recruitment in senior...

    What Can Senior Living Do to Reach 100% Occupancy?

    In an industry known for high turnover and resistance to change, what’s more important for senior living—trying to look...

    What Will Be the #1 Disruptor in Seniors Housing?

    An influx of single women, smart home technologies, environmental design, and the myriad demands of the boomer...

    How to Foster a Culture of Innovative Programming in Senior Living

    For almost two decades, Jack York has been offering senior living providers alternatives to BINGO and “Matlock” reruns...

    Can Alzheimer’s Be Treated Through Brain Expansion?

    For several years, Lantern Group CEO Jean Makesh has been passionately focused on developing new methods of caregiving...

    What Can Senior Living Learn From Silicon Valley?

    Kian Saneii believes that to avoid obsolescence, the Senior Living Industry needs to take more of an early-adopter...

    Is LEGO-inspired Modular Design the Future of Senior Living?

    Speaking bluntly, Dr. Bill Thomas sees a clear divide between the present of senior living design and the future.

    Striking a Balance: Monitoring vs Privacy in Senior Living Communities

    The future of senior living tech may involve a showdown between adult children who want 24-hour monitoring and the ...

    Leadership in Senior Living: Improving Recruitment, Training, Culture

    Reward employees who go the extra mile, ban gossip, and let poor performers go after three months (rather than three...

    Zeke Turner: Building A Strong Corporate Culture Can Take Years

    As CEO of Mainstreet, the largest developer of skilled nursing facilities in the US, and other companies, Zeke Turner...

    Industry Leaders Share Biggest Growth Opportunities for Senior Housing

    Innovative new projects and key challenges facing senior housing were on the table when a panel of four industry...

    Atari Founder Bushnell (74) Offers Tips for Staying Young

    What’s the key to a long, healthy, interesting life? Nolan Bushnell may have found the answer over a rainy Christmas in...

    Will Honor’s High Standards & Innovative Tech Raise the Bar for Senior Care?

    Like many savvy entrepreneurs, Seth Sternberg recognized an industry ripe for disruption and launched a human services...

    Bill Thomas Announces Latest Project at Senior Living Innovation Forum

    BOCA RATON, Fla., June 5, 2017 -- Dr. Bill Thomas, founder of The Eden Alternative and The Green House Project, took...

    The Future of Senior Living - Thoughts from industry's top CEOs

    With the Senior Living Innovation Forum just a couple weeks away, we thought it would be fitting to jump-start the...

    13 Ways Senior Living Will Evolve Over the Next Decade

    Who better to predict the future of senior living than the people who are driving the industry forward today? Through...

    The Golden Opportunity of Senior Living Hospital Partnerships

    Government incentives have prompted senior living operators, hospitals and other care providers to collaborate and...

    Can a Company as Large as Brookdale Still Innovate?

    How much growth is too much? And, when an established company gets “too big,” is it possible to turn things around?...

    Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Aging and Tech Innovation

    Nolan Bushnell isn’t your average 74-year-old. Often cited as the "Father of the Video Game Industry", Bushnell is best...

    With Automation Stealing Retail Jobs, Will Senior Living Jobs Fill the Gap?

    Over the past few decades, technology and other productivity-boosting efficiencies have decimated America’s...

    What Stagnant Nonprofits Can Learn From Good Samaritan’s High-Tech Innovation

    Founded in 1922 as a rural children’s home, over 90+ years The Good Samaritan Society has grown into the nation's...

    How Senior Living Can Attract & Retain a Millennial Workforce

    It’s no secret there’s a significant staffing shortage in the senior care industry..

    How Asking the Right Questions Can Cut Drama and Build an Empowered Senior Living Workforce

    Senior Living leadership needs to take a lesson from Mary J. Blige—“No More Drama.” Achieving that goal requires a...

    The Missing Link in Senior Care: Coordination

    Lynne Katzmann of Juniper Communities believes coordination with the healthcare world is critical for senior living...

    Cornerstone Affiliates' John Cochrane Urges Industry to Embrace Disruption

    Myth: The aging demographic has no money.

    Fact: The aging demographic has 70% of the wealth of our country, with two...

    At 92, Inventor is (Senior) Living Her Dream

    Scott Kaiser believes there’s more to successful senior living than just safety.

    “So many of the innovations to making...

    Mainstreet CEO says Nursing Homes are “Under-demolished”.

    Zeke Turner believes that nursing homes as we know them will cease to exist.

    “Like Blockbuster, they’ll be obsolete,”...

    Affordable Tech Will Improve Safety & Shrink Senior Living Payrolls

    Healthcare futurist Ron Galloway’s approach to senior care combines pragmatism with a relentlessly positive view of...

    Can Seniors and Their Children Work Harmoniously in the Same Economy?

    In post-war America, the elderly looked forward to retirement in their early 60s, collecting Social Security after...

    Senior Living CEOs Share Best Practices for Changing Industry

    From attracting Millennial workers to catering to a whole new breed of Baby Boomer retirees, the senior housing field...

    Senior Living Must Learn From Fast Adaptors to Remain Viable

    A “buggy” in the era of the self-driving car, senior living executives say their industry is evolving at a sloth-like...

    How to Grow and Sustain a Winning Culture in Senior Living

    “Winning corporate cultures allow you to attract the best leaders,” said Tim Smick, President and CEO of Harbor...

    Developing a Structure for Innovation to Occur

    Barbato is Senior Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships for Revera Living, a provider of senior...

    Futurist Predicts Senior Care Revolution with Ambient Intelligence

    Healthcare futurist Ron Galloway foresees a future not too different from the world depicted in Stanley Kubrick's...

    The Future of Senior Care is MESH

    Dr. Bill Thomas, Founder of the Eden Alternative and creator of The Green House Project gave a provocative, captivating...

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