Implement your emergency plan during infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19
By
Stan Szpytek
Mar 23, 2020
Your senior living community’s emergency operation plan can help your team manage COVID-19 with the same level of proficiency that it operates at during other emergency situations.
Returning treatment programs are a boon to assisted living residents
By
Mark Lawrence
Aug 23, 2021
Physical therapists and other treatment providers are a net positive to our residents’ long-term physical and mental well-being. Bringing them back has improved residents’ overall health and has given...
Long-haul impacts on senior living — what to expect in 2022
By
Dwayne Clark
Jan 10, 2022
Three areas are emerging as critical to consumer confidence in 2022.
How one senior living operator keeps residents COVID-free by focusing on employee health
By
Lee Tuchfarber
Oct 13, 2020
Due to close collaboration with medical directors, our own rigorous infection prevention disciplines, and a robust preemptive testing program, not one of our residents has tested positive throughout this...
Hindsight is 2020: COVID-19’s effects on older adults
By
Frederick Mark Paz, M.D.
Sep 13, 2021
As we move forward, let’s no forget to reflect on the lessons learned, the knowledge gained and the progress made in the midst of adversity, questioning not what brought us here but instead looking ahead...
Senior living design in the age of COVID-19
By
Keith Stanton
LuAnn Thoma-Holec
Allyson Nathan
Jun 08, 2020
Adjusting to a new paradigm will require new thinking and maybe an investment for some senior living operators and developers.
A new lens for healthy seniors in America
By
Charlotte Haberaecker
Jul 09, 2020
What we choose to do – or not – with our new awareness will starkly define health in America for seniors, their families and all of us eventually needing care and services in the years to come.
Retaining and recruiting employees for a healthy organizational culture
By
Pat Lamoreux
Mar 15, 2021
We all have felt the ripple effects of the pandemic as it has roared on. Yet despite unyielding stresses, never-ending regulation revisions and overall morass, one thing continues to ring true: Our team...
The PREP Act and how it affects your long-term care community
By
Timothy J. Ford, Esq.
Alex Lee, Esq.
Dec 14, 2020
Even though the PREP Act has been federal law since 2005, many senior living and care community leaders are just hearing about it for the first time. In 2020, the PREP Act now raises questions regarding...
Our Great Place to Work journey — before and after COVID
By
Warren Spieker
Jan 11, 2021
When we created Continuing Life to support a growing group of continuing care retirement communities, we invested in being a great place to work. It took a few years of work, and we’re not perfect,...