Tag: engagement

Activity Directors are heroes
Posted on May 26, 2009
engagement person centered
In the past 50 years, the senior care industry has been evolving from a medicalized institution to a place that people need and want to call their last home. In these environments, seniors crave to live as fully as possible while surrendering as least as possible of their previous life.As demand and needs shift towards […]

Are we all dead yet???
Posted on May 6, 2009
engagement person centered
Last Tuesday, the news about the economic crisis were suddenly better; as Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, explained, the economic free fall of the last nine months is nearing an end and the United States should begin a fragile recovery by the end of this year.He also warned that the convalescence will be […]

Older americans and technology design
Posted on April 6, 2009
engagement evidence based
Linked Senior’s mission is to ease the access to entertainment for senior communities; therefore, we’re very interested in trends about seniors and technology. Products at the recent CES 2009 and recent studies from TNS Compete and the Consumer Electronics Association show our elders are picking up what a lot of us consider as “teens activities”. […]

Geriatric1927 and Retirement Homes
Posted on February 17, 2009
engagement evidence based
Peter Oakley (born 20 August 1927) is a pensioner from Leicester, England. He is better known by his pseudonym geriatric1927 on the popular video sharing website YouTube. Making his YouTube debut in August, 2006 with a series of five-to-ten minute autobiographical videos entitled Telling it all, his posts gained immediate popularity. Oakley had over 47,000 […]

Culture Change: The Green House Project
Posted on February 3, 2009
engagement person centered
Linked Senior thrives to enhance the life in residential long term care through entertainment. We are deeply passionate about culture change and support initiatives that increase the quality of life of our elders. A very good example of an innovative model for residential long-term care is the Green House project. The Green House concept is […]

Senior Communities Under Pressure To Provide Better Activities
Posted on December 15, 2008
engagement person centered
Throughout the 20th century, the role and aspect of the senior community in the US has evolved from being a place for impoverished citizens to find their final rest, to the extension of a hospital, to a place for seniors to live their lives with different level of assistance. In the last decades, there has […]

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