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Happy New Year! Wishing you a very healthy, happy and peaceful 2012 from all of us at Comfort Life and Dialogue Plus! |
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From Your Residents: “Why Remembrance Day is Important to Me” To commemorate Remembrance Day and to honour those who fought for our freedom, Comfort Life asked your residents to tell us what this day means to them. Their reflections were turned into a video called, “Why Remembrance Day Is Important to Me”. We send our sincere thanks to all the residents and retirement communities who [...] |
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Webinar: Generate quality leads with the Comfort Life Network: Online + Mobile + Print + Digital channels It’s hard enough to keep your website up to date, let alone all of your advertisements and online spaces. However, communicating in current and meaningful ways has proven to increase response rates to ads and decrease your overall cost per lead. View the webinar below to better understand how to grab readers’ attention and generate [...] |
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Webinar: What works in advertising for retirement residences? To grow your occupancy and effectively market your retirement community, you need to understand how your target audience (boomers and seniors) are searching for retirement communities. Don’t spend money on what doesn’t work, or can’t be tracked. Find out how your colleagues and competitors are marketing their retirement communities: Online advertising: how families search for [...] |
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10 Ways to Market to Boomers Demographers have likened Baby Boomers to a “pig moving through a python,” accounting for one-third of America’s population. More than 78-million strong, the post-World War II generation has long been one of the most profitable consumer demographics, a trend that isn’t likely to slow as retirement nears. They’re a generation that never gives in, whether [...] |
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Comfort Life’s partnership with OACAO brings seniors to you! It is my pleasure to share with you the exciting news that Comfort Life is the official retirement residence search on the Older Adult Centres’ Association of Ontario (OACAO) website! This addition is designed to help boomers and seniors easily find retirement communities that are located near older adult centres. To see how it works, [...] |
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2011 Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference is the foremost national conference in Canada focusing on hospice palliative care. The 2011 conference, Navigating Safe Pathways to Quality Hospice Palliative Care, will take place from September 8th-11th in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador at the Delta St. John’s Hotel and Conference Centre. The conference provides doctors, nurses, [...] |
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You Could Live a Long Time: Are you Ready? – Book Review “You Could Live a Long Time: Are you Ready?” By Lyndsay Green Published in 2010 by Thomas Allen Publishers Drawing on first-person interviews with over 40 Canadian ‘elders’, as she calls them, sociologist Lyndsay Green’s new book “You Could Live a Long Time: Are you Ready?” offers a realistic snapshot of the emotional, physical, [...] |
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20th John K. Friesen Conference: growing Old in a Changing Climate 20th John K. Friesen Conference: growing Old in a Changing Climate May 25,-26, 2011, Vancouver, BC |
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OHCA 2011 Symposium: Showcasing our Best! OHCA 2011 Symposium: Showcasing our Best! May 25, 2011 Mississauga, ON |
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Chef Michael Smith Chef Michael Smith Prince Edward Island’s Food Ambassador This award-winning chef has four popular books and four Food Network TV shows to his credit. |
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Cheryl Lucas Cheryl Lucas Challenges of olfactory impairment Cheryl Lucas, Principal with Lucas Partners, is a consultant to all levels of senior living, from independent to skilled nursing. She is also the former Assistant Vice-President of food and beverage at Classic Residences by Hyatt. |
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David K. Foot David K. Foot Demographer Demographer David K. Foot, Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto and author of Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift, tells us how demographics impacts seniors, boomers and food. |
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Alison Duncan Alison Duncan Functional foods Alison M. Duncan, PhD, RD, is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph. She teaches in the area of functional food and nutraceuticals and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Nutrition. |
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Carol Jong Carol Jong Lessons from centenarians Dr. Carol L. Jong, PhD, RD, is a graduate of the UCLA School of Public Health, has a doctorate in nutrition from the University of California, Davis, and is a Registered Dietitian. Dr. Jong is an educator and speaker, and has served as a television nutrition expert, call-in radio show [...] |
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Matthew Durant Matthew Durant Food and long-term care Dr. Matt Durant, PhD, CDE, PDt, is Associate Professor at the School of Nutrition and Dietetics, Acadia University. He also consults to seniors in long-term care residences, primarily in rural Nova Scotia. |
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Josh Josephson Josh Josephson Sophisticated boomers Dr. Josh Josephson, a former research optometrist, is president of Josephson Opticians and the owner of The Cookbook Store. He is also a director of No No, Inc., a biotechnology company with a drug in clinical trials that prevents the complications of stroke. He is a member of the Chevaliers du [...] |
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Heather Keller Heather Keller Psychosocial aspects of dining 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 [...] |
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Darin Leonardson Darin Leonardson Open kitchens 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. |
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Joska W. Hajdu Joska W. Hajdu Culturally diverse populations Joska W. Hajdu is Senior Vice-President of dining services for Brookdale Senior Living and an Executive Chef. He founded Brookdale’s award-winning Culinary Arts Institute dedicated to the professional development of chefs and has over 28 years’ experience in the hospitality industry. |
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Getting Your Hands Dirty With the first hint of spring, activity fills the greenhouse at The Mulberry Retirement Residence in Burnaby, B.C. The Garden Club is back and they have seeds, earth and pots. Soon hanging baskets will be ready for the patio and the gazebo. “They do everything from scratch,” says Earl Bergen, general manager. Before too long, [...] |
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Moving to the Music Daren Swanson and Lisa Nicole are first-hand witnesses to the power of music. As Alchemy unplugged, the talented duo has played seven years for a variety of audiences, many at retirement residences in southern Ontario. “I love singing, playing guitar and making people feel good,” Swanson says. Their concerts for seniors include a wide variety [...] |
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New national alliance on seniors’ housing Over the last year, Canadian retirement residence operators and their associations have formed a national alliance that can speak and act on senior housing issues. It is currently setting priorities and planning future meetings. The Canadian Alliance for Seniors’ Living (CASL) has been formed as an outcome of a national seniors’ housing think tank hosted [...] |
