Editorial
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Planksgiving Celebrated at Friendship Village of Schaumburg
Happy Planksgiving! That’s a new phrase that, who knows, may turn into a part of our seasonal lexicon. What is Planksgiving? Well, it got its start at Friendship Village, a life-plan retirement community that has, for more than 45 years, been providing…
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J.D. Power Study: Senior Living Community Satisfaction Stabilizes as Staffing and Activities Improve
A recently released J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Senior Living Satisfaction Study says that senior living communities have managed to “maintain steady levels of resident and family-member satisfaction” in spite of costs that have steadily risen about 5.5 percent annually industrywide…
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Staffing Solutions: A Conversation with Health Dimensions Group President Amber Rogotzke
[This is the next in a series of interviews with senior living executives about ways in which they’re mitigating staffing challenges in their communities. If your community is having success with a new staffing process, please reach out to editor…
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Mather and LeadingAge Partner for Something Unique
LeadingAge held its Annual Meeting at McCormick Place in Chicago recently. If you were there, before you even made it to your first session or took in the all-new E2 Expo supplier showcases, you couldn’t help but notice a few…
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Boomers Changing the Rules of Retirement
Editor’s Note: This article was written and submitted by senior-living executive Beth Kuberka. If you are a senior-living executive at a community with an idea for an article that you’d like to write and publish in Senior Living News you’re…
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Former Senior Living Administrators Sentenced to Jail
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Two former administrators at a Bucks County memory-care facility have been sentenced for up to two years in county jail for failing to report on-campus sexual assaults of three female dementia patients by a male dementia…
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New CDC Report: Health Workers Facing Mental Health Crisis
This year’s worst-kept secret is the shortage of healthcare workers. It’s been an approaching problem for some time that got dramatically worse over the past three years or so. In 2018, pre-pandemic, one-third of health workers across the board planned…
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Amityville Caregivers Picket Over Use of Temporary Nurses, Equipment Concerns
AMITYVILLE, NY — Massapequa Center Rehabilitation & Nursing, represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, have picketed in this village on the south shore of Long Island, about 90 minutes east of New York City. What is being called “informational…
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A Sneak Peek at the Soon-to-Open, Zen-Inspired Enso Village
“We have always been a generation of seekers; curious and actively questioning,” it says on Enso Village’s website. “Zen as it has traveled from India, to China, to Japan and now here to the West, has provided a steady basis…
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From Tasteful Textures to a Paperless Kitchen — It’s Happening at RiverSpring Living
RiverSpring Living sits on 32 acres in Riverdale, New York, a residential neighborhood in the Bronx, just a few miles north of Yankee Stadium. According to its website, RiverSpring’s “park-like” grounds boast “sweeping views of the Hudson River and walkable…