Editorial
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Don’t be Afraid of the Conversation
Editor’s Note: This article was written and submitted by senior-living executive Adam Manchester. 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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’Tis the Season … Atria Senior Living and Soldiers’ Angels: a Story of Holiday Giving
’Tis the season…. The season to be jolly, as the song goes, but also the season for peace on earth and goodwill toward men. It’s in that spirit that Atria Senior Living, an operator and manager of about 350 independent-,…
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HEALTHTAC Food & Beverage Panel: The Past, Present, and Future of Senior Living Food & Beverage
ORLANDO, FL — Charles Kettering, the 20th-century engineer and inventor who founded Delco Electronics, once famously said, “The world hates change. Yet, it’s the only thing that’s ever brought progress.” Change can certainly be uncomfortable, but it’s not only inevitable,…
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HEALTHTAC Food & Beverage Panel: Accommodating Resident Requests: What’s the Trick?
ORLANDO, FL — “Palettes are becoming more and more diverse,” shared Goodwin Living’s Innovation and Development Chef Brian Patterson. “The incoming residents have more and more expectation of a restaurant experience over a batch-cooked experience, and as one of my…
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Just in Time for the Holidays: The Fountains at RiverVue Residents Publish Italian Cookbook for a Good Cause
Mouth-watering pasta dishes, just the way grandma makes it, just the way you’ll find them in trattorias throughout Italy, and just in time for the holidays: This is what you’ll find in a tasty new cookbook curated, collected, and published…
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A New Tradition at Blakeford Senior Life: A Turkey Trot Without the Turkey — or the Trot
All across America last week runners and walkers laced up their running shoes and sneakers and headed out to their nearby Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. With the day’s feast and lineup of NFL games still hours away, Turkey Trots…
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Talking About Tomorrow: A Conversation About Wanderlust with Moorings Park’s Tom Mann
Looking forward rather than backward is how Tom Mann describes the residents at the Moorings Park Communities, for which he’s vice president of sales and marketing. Senior Living News Zoomed with Mann recently about a program at the three Moorings…
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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…