HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
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.
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?”
Richard Branson’s One-Sentence Business Revolution
In Branson’s world this means leaders need to genuinely care about people and they need to hire people who genuinely care about people.
TECHNOLOGY
Never Let the Present Blind You to the Future
How long will it be before AI is as power-efficient as a modern laptop or smartphone? Let’s keep moving forward to reap the benefits.
An Ancient View of AI Origins
Grappling with artificial intelligence and the related question of how AI should be regulated brings the obvious challenge of change in senior living.
Exciting Artificial Intelligence News
Wouldn’t it be a turnaround if senior services were at the forefront of this coming revolution instead of being seen as a laggard?
DEVELOPMENT
Senior Living Franchising
There is a potential for franchising to supplement today’s senior living capital. And the concepts may inspire new thinking about how we age in America.
Solving The Loneliness Epidemic
But if you’re one of the millions who struggle with this, know that it can and will get better. You just have to make the call.
Big Business Conundrum: Build or Buy
A senior living asked panelists whether they favor building or buying as the better alternative for investing. Which approach provides the greater return?
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Why Your High-Performing Team Secretly Hates Their Job (And What You’re Missing)
You can create the greatest working environment, and yet, if your team’s perception is that you, as a leader, don’t care, it doesn’t matter.
You Think Everyone is On The Same Page — They Aren’t
Some people will be aligned with your takeaways. Others walked out of that exact same meeting with a completely different impression.
Hours vs. Mission
We punched in and punched out. I lasted three weeks till I found something better … a job with purpose beyond hours.
LEADERSHIP
Renewal: The Hardest Part of the Job
No enterprise, no organization, no corporation can remain fresh without renewal. The key to renewal is people.
Business and Public Service
Not-for-profit operators have dominated senior living, but with time, even the best of them tend to become money-focused, with service secondary.
The Leadership Practice Hiding in Plain Sight
When you do this, pick the resident or resident family you like the least, not your favorite. Doing this one thing will be much more impactful.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
What Does Intentionality in Senior Living Really Look Like
There was this collective sense of purpose — a desire to create real change and walk away with tangible ideas to make it happen.
STOP Underpricing Senior Living: Why You Need to Raise Rates 30-50% NOW
Imagine that you could double the number of resident care aides. How much are the possibilities of a better experience?
No Place for Old People: Leading Age in Boston
To LeadingAge’s credit, residents are tolerated at meetings, but I think leaders believe they are more open to residents than is actually the case.
SALES & MARKETING
Advertising and Branding for Our New Age
Human creativity and perception are key to building dominant brand awareness. AI will not take that away from us.
Could This Be The Sales Message Senior Living Needs?
People don’t buy products; they buy back their lives. They buy hope. They buy the promise of reclaiming what aging tried to steal.
A Home for Lame Ducks
How would the market respond if the industry were upfront with the implicit outcome that residents are lame ducks for life?
FORESIGHT RADIO
S7 Episode 22 – From Pessimism to Potential: Designing Senior Living for Legacy, Health, and Hope with Ben Lytle
Live from the SLIF’s Fall Conference, Steve Moran sits down with entrepreneur and former public-company CEO Ben Lytle.
FORESIGHT TV
Older Is Bolder: Rewriting the Story of Aging
Paula Ledbetter and Angela Lyonsmith of Mather discuss Older is Bolder, a movement challenging how society thinks about aging.