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Navigating the myriad details and nuances associated with senior living, particulary when it comes to continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs or ‘life plan communities’) can be overwhelming. Sometimes it is tough just to know where to start or what questions to ask.

The myLifeSite blog includes hundreds of articles on senior living, CCRCs, independent living, caregiving, retirement planning, and closely related topics. The articles are informative and unbiased, and you can find specific topics you are interested in using the keyword search tool.

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Suppose you are researching several different retirement communities. One of them is an independent living community and the other two are continuing care retirement communities. How can you best compare them to one another. What are the trade-offs to consider? An article like this one might help: Avoid This  Mistake When Comparing Retirement Communities.

Or, perhaps you would like an indepth and unbiased explanation of how various entry fee models work at continuing care retirement communities. In that case you may find an article like this one to be helpful: A Closer Look at Entry Fees.

Or, maybe you are interested in statistics about long-term care and how long people often need it. Here’s a helpful article on this topic: So I’ll Probably Need Long Term Care, But For How Long?

Thank you for checking out the myLifeSite Blog. We hope you’ll find what you are looking for as you considering your retirement living options.

 

 

Senior Living ESG Initiatives Help Attract Today’s Prospects

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives consider a company’s environmental sustainability measures, as well as the ethics of their business practices and policies. In the world of investing, it is an increasingly important yardstick with which investors select businesses to put their money in. The importance of ESG in the senior living industry also continues [...]

By |2023-08-05T18:05:16-04:00April 18th, 2023|
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The Senior Loneliness Epidemic Continues Post-Pandemic

Although COVID may never be completely gone, many aspects of life have returned to our pre-pandemic “normal.” A recent poll shows that this normalcy includes levels of loneliness reported by seniors. Yet these latest statistics around senior loneliness are still nothing to celebrate, according to experts. Quantifying senior loneliness The January 2023 National Poll on [...]

By |2024-06-22T09:24:33-04:00April 10th, 2023|
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Streamlining Your Senior Living Marketing and Sales Process

Senior living sales and marketing has gotten incredibly complex, bringing new challenges to the task of meeting demand generation goals. From complicated pricing and contract models to seniors who want a different kind of senior living experience, friction too often is stalling the sales process.  It’s going to take a different approach to reach and [...]

By |2024-06-30T17:07:29-04:00April 4th, 2023|
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Which Senior Living Community Is Right for You? Part 3: Entry Fee Retirement Communities

Last week, we delved into what characterizes an equity retirement community, as well as possible pros and cons of this senior living option. Prior to that, we examined the characteristics of a rental retirement community. In this third and final installment in our series on the different types of senior living communities, we take a [...]

By |2023-07-21T15:27:06-04:00March 28th, 2023|
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Which Senior Living Community Is Right for You? Part 2: Equity Retirement Communities

In last week’s post, we explored the defining characteristics of a rental retirement community, as well as the potential pros and cons of choosing one. In this second installment in our series on the different types of senior living communities, we examine equity retirement communities, also referred to as ownership retirement communities, and what sets [...]

By |2023-07-21T15:25:27-04:00March 21st, 2023|
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Which Senior Living Community Is Right for You? Part 1: Rental Retirement Communities

Most car owners know that there are pros and cons when it comes to buying versus leasing a car. The same is true for entry fee, equity, and rental retirement communities: Each senior living model has potential advantages and disadvantages for residents. In the coming weeks, we will take a closer look at each of [...]

By |2023-07-21T15:23:13-04:00March 14th, 2023|
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Senior Living Community, Leaving an Inheritance: Is It an Either-Or?

There was a great interview-article in Forbes last year entitled “Dilemma: Senior Living Facility or Kids’ Inheritance?” In it, financial expert Larry Light interviewed Certified Financial Planner Rick Kahler about many seniors’ desire to leave their adult children an inheritance. The interview explored the common concern that opting to move to a senior living community [...]

By |2024-03-07T14:37:58-05:00March 7th, 2023|
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Creating a More Successful Senior Living Direct Mail Campaign

If you are in sales and marketing for a senior living community, such as a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) or a rental retirement community, you know that it can be tricky to get prospects on-site. Whether you are striving to get folks to take a tour, come for an event, or simply build awareness, [...]

By |2023-08-16T15:47:45-04:00February 28th, 2023|
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Finding The Perfect Match: Senior Dating and Relationships

It’s Valentine’s Day, which means love is in the air for many seniors. Of course, a lot of older people have been in long-term relationships spanning numerous decades, but as the years march on, many seniors find themselves alone — be it single, divorced, or widowed — and looking for love and/or companionship. But senior [...]

By |2023-02-13T16:36:38-05:00February 14th, 2023|
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Evaluating Care, Quality, and Access at a CCRC’s Healthcare Center

It is a bit ironic that when you move to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC, or life plan community), you hope to never need one of its defining characteristics: the onsite healthcare center. But as we wrote about a few weeks ago, the odds are that at some point, you will require some level [...]

By |2023-02-06T21:43:00-05:00February 7th, 2023|
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