Senior Living Must Appeal to Data-Focused Decision-Makers
I read a really interesting article this past week that was published a few years ago on Senior Housing News. The article discusses how senior living communities’ dining programs are closely tied to move-ins, especially as it relates to memory care communities. What I found particularly interesting about this article was its focus on generational [...]
Senior Cohousing Can Help Address Loneliness
We’ve written before about how common loneliness is among seniors in this country. In fact, a 2018 study conducted by AARP Foundation found that 35 percent of Americans over age 45 say they are lonely — more than 1 in 3. That number is even higher among low-income groups (earning less than $25,000 per year) [...]
Lifelong Learning Fosters Intergenerational Connections
Just as we need to move our bodies in order to stay healthy and fit as we age, we also must keep our minds active. This is one of the reasons that many continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs or life plan communities) offer an array of lifelong learning opportunities to their residents — sometimes even [...]
Making New Friends Should be a Lifelong Endeavor
In last week’s post, I talked about the ways a continuing care retirement community (CCRC, or life plan community) or other senior living community can appeal to both the introvert and the extrovert. This topic got me thinking about a somewhat related story I heard on NPR recently about how it can be difficult for [...]
CCRCs Offer Comfortable Options for the Introvert and Extrovert
Did you ever take a Myers-Briggs personality test? If so, you found out where you are on the spectrum between the introvert or extrovert personality type. The principles used to create this introvert/extrovert preference within the test are based on the work of renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung. In some ways, it is a useful piece [...]
Combatting Ageism in the Healthcare System
I recently read a disheartening article about the prevalence of ageism in the healthcare system in this country. Age discrimination and bias is a longstanding issue — one that has had a light shined upon it during the pandemic. Poor treatment of seniors in nursing homes and crisis care standards that withheld healthcare resources from [...]