Activities

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...

A cherished senior (otherwise known as my dad) was lying in a hospital bed having a horrible day/week/month/year when the recreation therapist showed up.  Her name was Tiffany, and along with her...

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...

Older U.S. adults continue to experience COVID-19 exposure anxiety, keeping them less active and more isolated, new survey results find.

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....

Residents at Pine Point Center in Scarborough, ME, got the opportunity to be wild when recreation director Belinda Bantly set up a day of motorcycle rides earlier this month.

The pandemic has hastened the cognitive decline of patients with dementia in unprecedented ways, doctors confirm. Despite rising cases, clinicians must emphasize socialization, they say.