Featured Contributors
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Lina Hoffbauer
Consultant to the not-for-profit and seniors living sectors
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John A. Macdonald
Technology consultant
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Laurie Orlov
Tech industry veteran, writer, speaker, and certified long-term care ombudsman
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Kate Mancer
Kate Mancer is the owner of Lumina Services, leading market analysts for seniors housing and health care.
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Karen Brill
Management and Leadership consultant
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Recent Articles
Eight ways to optimize your Comfort Life profile
Your Comfort Life profile will help bring prospects to your door if you take full advantage of what it offers. Here’s what to do.
How to build authentic relationships with boomers and seniors
How can you build relationships with boomers that will keep you top of mind when they are looking for retirement living options? Give it to them straight and make their lives easier by following these tips.
WEBINAR: Optimize Your Comfort Life profile: Photos, stories, social and search
The Comfort Life Marketing Bundle includes: Online, Mobile, Print and Digital profiles on Canada’s largest marketing network designed specifically for retirement communities. Maximize your online exposure and update your information so you don’t miss traffic from more than 30,000 monthly visitors via ComfortLife.ca & TopRetirementHomes.ca. This webinar will provide you with a step-by-step approach to [...]
From the Magazine
Food: It’s more than just nutrition
How seniors ate in their own homes can indicate how well they’ll adapt to residence life Food! At school, at camp, in hospital—as kids, teens or adults—whenever two or three are gathered, there’s talk about food. No wonder it’s a lightning rod in retirement residences, too. Hasn’t every food services manager said to themselves, “It’s [...]
Selecting the right chef
Over the years, Westcana has developed a formula for a successful and profitable food services operation. Essential elements include the following: a well-designed and nicely laid-out kitchen facility, with easy access for deliveries, adequate storage space and proper, well-maintained equipment quality food product from reputable sources consistent product (based on standardized recipes) no “cookie cutter” [...]
Expert Q&A
The demographics of food
Demographer David K. Foot is Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto and the author of the best-selling books Boom, Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift and the updated paperback version, Boom Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century.
Expert Q&A | Darin Leonardson
In his role as Corporate Chef for Leisure Care, Darin brings his expertise and passion for food to satisfying the taste buds of nearly 4,000 seniors across the United States and Canada, including three Tapestry locations in Vancouver, B.C., and Toronto, Ontario.
Expert Q&A | Heather Keller
Heather Keller, RD, PhD, FDC, is a Professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph and is an expert in nutrition and older adults. Her comprehensive research program includes nutrition risk screening, nutrition and aging well in older adults, and nutrition and dementia.
