Senior living residents are active, engaged individuals who take part in a variety of hobbies and pursue numerous interests. Life doesn’t end in senior living, but instead the many choices present in these communities allow seniors to explore activities they never even considered or perhaps even heard of. Watch FUN videos and read INSPIRING stories about seniors currently residing in senior living communities. 4/3/2013
Active & Engaged Seniors, Ageism, Community Awareness and Education, Public Policy, Resident Engagement
Each year since 1963, May has been a month to appreciate and celebrate the vitality and aspirations of older adults and their contributions to our com...
2/20/2013
Active & Engaged Seniors, Community Awareness and Education, Facts and Figures, Health and Wellness, Memory Care Best Practices and Research, Research, Resident Engagement, Science and Technology, Seniors Housing Residents Financial Survey, Social Media
Results from a new study on seniors’ use of social networking sites suggest that older adults who use Facebook may experience an improvement in cognit...
2/20/2013
Active & Engaged Seniors, Clinical Quality and Quality Care Delivery, Community Awareness and Education, Resident Engagement, Senior Living Art Showcase, Value-Added Amenities and Services, Wellness Program
Art can be a powerful activity for older adults. For many seniors art is a lifelong passion, for others, art is a hobby that they never had the time t...
1/23/2013
Active & Engaged Seniors, Community Awareness and Education, Quality of Life, Resident and Family Services, Resident Engagement, Science and Technology, Value-Added Amenities and Services
A defining factor for residents of senior living communities can be the separation from past family and friends. But the online tools made available b...
12/21/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Award Programs, Best of the Best Awards, Community Awareness and Education, Health and Wellness, Memory Care Best Practices and Research
Senior Lifestyle Corporation’s Best of the Best winning program, Brain Health University, offers a fun, engaging, and social way for residents to impr...
12/18/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Clinical Quality and Quality Care Delivery, Community Awareness and Education, Facts and Figures, Health and Wellness, Memory Care Best Practices and Research, Memory Care Education, Reports, Research, Resident Engagement
Even adjusting for factors like age, socioeconomic factors, and initial cognitive functioning, researchers found that feelings of loneliness increased...
12/4/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Clinical Quality and Quality Care Delivery, Facts and Figures, Health and Wellness, Memory Care Best Practices and Research, Memory Care Education, Reports, Research
Researchers found that older adults, with or without Alzheimer’s, who exercise consistently, have more grey matter than their sedentary peers. Grey m...
9/18/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Award Programs, Best of the Best Awards, Clinical Quality and Quality Care Delivery, Health and Wellness, Managed Risk
Senior Living Communities’ Best of the Best Winning Purpose-Based Wellness program tailors exercise programs to women with osteoporosis, individuals w...
9/5/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Facts and Figures, Health and Wellness, Research, Resident Engagement
A new study of seniors age 75 or older found that participants who were active physically, mentally, and socially were most likely to live past age 90...
8/28/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Award Programs, Best of the Best Awards
Hoffman SummerWood Community’s Senior Voices: Self Expression Through Poetry program was honored as a 2012 Best of the Best Program to Spotlight. The ...
7/5/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors
Emeritus Senior Living shared a video of some of their talented residents lip synching to the hot new hit, Call Me Maybe. View the entertaining video ...
4/23/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Art Showcase In the News
ALFA has announced the two winners of the ALFA Senior Living Art Showcase, an art competition celebrating the arts in senior living communities. Recei...
4/18/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Art Showcase In the News
Mimi Miller, a resident of Brightview Country Club Heights, is a finalist in the Assisted Living Federation of America’s (ALFA) leading art competitio...
4/4/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Art Showcase In the News
It was a good thing his mom named him Art, said Art Cole as he stroked a brush through burnt umber oil paint and daubed it onto a canvas. He sat at a ...
1/18/2012
Active & Engaged Seniors, Ageism
Host a screening of the new documentary Age of Champions to battle misconceptions about aging and inspire those around you. This film tells the uplift...
11/2/2011
Active & Engaged Seniors
To better understand my great-grandfather’s perspective and the perspective of the thousands of other seniors living in senior living communities thro...
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