The chance to learn secrets to success drew McKnight’s Senior Living website visitors, newsletter readers and social media followers and friends to columns posted on the site in 2015, reveals an...
From challenges to advantages: Technology’s role in solving three critical issues
Jan 31, 2022
[Partner content] As we start 2022, ongoing concerns remain around occupancy, staffing and price-to-value. The industry looks to three new concepts for answers: Providing the right care at the right...
Recognizing senior living tech success
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 16, 2018
The hard part was implementing technology to improve care and operations. The easy part is entering the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards to try to get recognized for it. The deadline is...
Designing for dementia
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 25, 2017
An app that was under development when we first told you about it in June is now available to help make living environments more friendly for those with dementia.
It’s time to be recognized for your use of tech
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 21, 2022
Enter the 2022 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. The deadline is June 30 — a week from Thursday! — and the only cost for you to enter is your time.
Sense of community, control may be a few clicks away for residents
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 07, 2018
Senior living residents may be deriving a sense of empowerment and community from a source that may surprise you.
Tick tock, TikTok: Making time for fun in retirement
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 25, 2022
I read this week about a retirement community in West Hollywood, CA, that has six residents aged 70 to 85. Except “Retirement House” isn’t a real place, and the “residents” don’t really live...
New research can help you attract prospective employees, residents
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 20, 2024
To attract prospective employees or residents, your senior living community must meet them where they are. If you’re hoping to meet them on social media, new research provides a roadmap of sorts.
Yes, thieves are coming for your data
By
John O'Connor
Feb 23, 2017
Think your senior living community is exempt from data theft? Think again.
Ready or not, here it comes — in fact, it’s here
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 29, 2022
From tools that help employers improve the recruiting and retention of workers to self-driving cars that help residents get around in Florida or California, senior living already has a front-row seat to...