Charles de Vilmorin

Resident engagement in senior living and long-term care continues to rebound, with many positive trends evident in 2022 and the first half of 2023.  In fact, in 2023, total engagement and contacts...

The future of senior living resident engagement is about empowering everyone to engage any resident – no matter their preferences or physical and cognitive abilities. Today, the activity director...

The hidden resident is not hiding — she is waiting to be engaged!  Are you meaningfully engaging every resident in your community?  Too often the answer is I don’t know.  Most long-term...

Dementia is not a normal part of aging.  These eight words should help anchor and inspire the long-term care and senior living industry’s collective work to change, renew and elevate the ways...

For individuals experiencing cognitive changes, it can become increasingly difficult to communicate unmet needs. If these needs remain unaddressed, it is common for them to be expressed through different...

One of the most negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been social isolation for older adult residents living in long-term care communities, especially those receiving memory care.  An Altarum...

After facing more than two years of intense challenges, the senior living industry seems to be settling, and positive trends started to emerge throughout 2022. 

A fundamental shift is necessary in the way we view dementia and care provided for persons living with dementia.  By any objective measure, the medical approach to dementia has been a monumental failure....

The current staffing crisis is the most challenging the senior care industry has ever experienced. It is leading to economic pressure on providers, burnout in the existing workforce and likely poor health...

The person-first concept of the “social prescription” in senior living helps connect elders with social based, non-drug solutions using their life history, individual preferences, and current abilities....