Tag: person centered

How about the family??

Placing a family member in a nursing home is painful and difficult, yet necessary when the medical and physical demands make other options unacceptable. It is often said that the community environment and procedures are overwhelming and that the family must learn the new set of rules. Recently, communities have started understanding that it also […]

Bringing the loners out

We were demonstrating our product to residents of a nearby facility last week and they were very excited; but one of them just sat in her corner and didn’t seem to care much about what was going on.After asking her what she thought about all this, she simply replied: “I am 94 years old, I […]

Active seniors help culture change

It’s amazing how our preconceived image of Aging make us think that seniors all gather in one place and do nothing for the rest of their life. Culture change is here to help us and has already done a lot. However the average Joe still believes that being a senior means having a boring life. […]

Up and away with Ageism!

UP is the new Pixar movie that was released last week. It is the story of a 78 year old man who ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America with a kid who is 70 years younger.When it was first announced, the industry was scared because […]

Activity Directors are heroes

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???

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 […]