HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
An Ironclad Way to Upgrade Your Lighting for Zero Dollars
You know that some modernizations might improve resident health and give you a marketing boost. But is now the right time to invest?
How to Track the ROI of Your Social Media
The usefulness of social media is proven time and time again . . . If you know how to leverage it and track it properly.
A New Way to Get Great Consumer Reviews for Your Communities
These days, every dollar is an investment for consumers. They may not tour your community or answer your call if your reviews aren’t stellar.
TECHNOLOGY
What You Need to Know About Your IT. Before You Get Burned.
Because, if you’re looking to grow your organization to more than a handful of properties you’re going to get hammered if you don’t get strategic about IT.
New Staff Position Makes Residents Happier
Itzel’s title is “resident technology assistant.” You might think that would be part of the technology operation, but it’s not.
This Tech Tuesday Episode Made Me Angry
Because there’s no excuse in a world where integrated care coordination platforms like PointClickCare (a Foresight partner) exist.
DEVELOPMENT
Pacifica Senior Living: Getting It Right
It was shocking news … that Pacifica Senior Living had “gone belly up.” Actually, it’s dramatically different from what’s been reported.
Bucking the Senior Housing Trend
It’s time to drop the “senior” from senior housing. It’s time to get out of senior housing financing and into housing financing.
What Is Senior Living?
Perhaps the real problem is that the goal is more about creating pots of gold than providing optimal experiences for older people and their family members.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
The Cost of Inaction: Delaying Finance Outsourcing
If your finance team is feeling the strain — or if you’re simply curious about how outsourcing could help — you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Is Toxic Positivity Crushing You and Your Organization?
You give positive feedback and suddenly that team member is doing too many things wrong, or one or two big things wrong.
The Autocrat of the Meeting Room
Committees don’t make good decisions, and meetings are more often about personalities and influence than about business realities and opportunities.
LEADERSHIP
A Crazy Simple Way to Create Lasting Change in Your Teams
Have you ever come up with a great idea that you want, and need, your team to implement, and they all seem on board, but it goes nowhere?
My Letter to Brookdale – Ignored …
It may be that I am not the right person to fix Brookdale, but the one tune that keeps running through my head is this …
Who Should Be Innovating In Your Organization?
The most successful innovation leaders don’t say “follow me” — they say “I believe in your vision. How can I help make it happen?”
LIFE ENRICHMENT
More Powerful Than You Can Imagine
It is a powerful portrayal of how much people who work in senior living care about the happiness of residents and family members.
Brookdale: Grappling with Conventionality
Change the focus. Give customers what they will want. The customers may not know what they want until the creative genius shows them.
How Senior Living Could Save The Healthcare System
Sometimes the best way to save money is to spend money which is why there is an increased focus on healthy living. Here is why it would save billions …
SALES & MARKETING
What CCRC Operators Don’t Want to Hear
It’s time to pull a Steve Jobs and totally upend and reinvent the industry for the better. “You’ve got to start with the customer.” – Steve Jobs.
Gene Hackman and the Case for Senior Living
Every time I see another story about his death I find myself thinking … if only they had been living in a senior living community …
Stories to Steal: Love and Food
Because every story shared is another step toward changing perceptions and showing what truly exceptional senior care looks like.
FORESIGHT RADIO
S7 Episode 10 – Dementia Doesn’t Mean the End of Joy with Patti LaFleur
Patty shares insights into the challenges and unique needs of those diagnosed with dementia before the age of 65.
FORESIGHT TV
Is This the New Way to Build Senior Living to Improve Everything?!
Ben Seagar, the Principal of KTGY joins Steve Moran to discuss modular building techniques for senior living.