Communities ‘travel’ through time, space to celebrate 2024 Olympics
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Foster Stubbs
Aug 28, 2024
A Morning Pointe Senior Living campaign aims to bring the rest of the world to residents in communities across the nation. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Scrolling through online videos only increases boredom: study
Aug 19, 2024
Bored residents? The time they spend zipping through online videos isn’t going to help, a new study shows.
Meet Melinda Skirvin, 2024 Hall of Honor inductee
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Foster Stubbs
Aug 12, 2024
Melinda Skirvin, vice president – chief wellness officer – clinical at Five Star Senior Living in Newton, MA, is a Hall of Honor inductee in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards...
Communities celebrate July 4 with golf carts, good food
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 17, 2024
Senior living communities from coast to coast donned their red, white and blue as they celebrated another installment of the Fourth of July. Learn more, and find out how to submit your photos!
Meet Keri Dunlop, 2024 Rising Star honoree
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 09, 2024
Keri Dunlop, delegating nurse at Brightview Senior Living – Brightview Bel Air in Bel Air, MD, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Friendship between residents, students blossoms after planter box donation
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 03, 2024
Thanks to a project in a local high school geometry class, assisted living residents at Good Samaritan Society – The Pines in Jackson, MN, received two planter boxes for their community garden. Find...
New York unveils animatronic pet, intergenerational game initiative to combat loneliness
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Foster Stubbs
Jun 25, 2024
The New York State Office for the Aging will deliver 4,725 animatronic pets and games to older adults through the state’s aging network. The move is part of phase 6 of its animatronic pets initiative...
Summer book release explores AI as a companion to offset loneliness
May 28, 2024
With an international epidemic of loneliness, artificial Intelligence, or AI, may offer technology-based social interaction and companionship. That’s according to robotics expert Tony Prescott, a professor...
Technology helped older adults stay connected during pandemic, small study finds
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Foster Stubbs
May 21, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic changed almost everyone’s social calendar, with meet-ups moved to video chats, office collaboration happening over communication apps, and social media replacing lunch with a friend.
Recruiting, retention strategies shared by McKnight’s Women of Distinction
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Foster Stubbs
Adam Healy
May 16, 2024
Five current or previous McKnight’s Women of Distinction honorees shared recruiting and retention strategies in a panel discussion Tuesday.