Residence Communities
5 Tips To Promote Literature In Your Retirement Community
5 tips to keep residents of your retirement community healthy, happy, active and social through a love of reading. Read more…
Environment & Design
Trillium Health Centre unveils vision for seniors’ health and wellness complex
Comfort Life Media recently spoke to Janet Davidson, O.C., President and CEO, Trillium Health Centre, about Trillium’s vision for its future seniors’ health and wellness complex and how it will provide new housing and care options for Toronto seniors and their families. How will Trillium Health Centre’s seniors health and wellness complex compare to many [...]
Industry News & Research
New Tool for Professional Care Managers: LivHOME CAREMONITOR™
Professional care managers can use LivHOME CareMonitor™ to monitor seniors via the web, maintaining independence and safety. Read more…
Management & Leadership
Coaching and Mentoring for Seniors
Coaching and mentoring is increasingly being recognized as a critical factor in keeping seniors motivated. It has been acknowledged that when there is some form of coaching or mentoring, seniors thrive. Today many lifestyle communities automatically assign a mentor or coach to new residents. What exactly does coaching and mentoring mean when it [...]
Marketing & Communications
Are You Working with the Aging-at-Home Movement—or Against It?
How are you working with the aging-at-home movement? Are you collaborating with boomers and seniors who are staying in their homes or are you in denial?
Staffing
Chartwell REIT celebrates staff with a new book
At last year’s BCSLA conference, plenary speaker Stuart Ellis-Myers (“Uniquely Speaking Inc.”) talked about the importance of promoting staff by showing a video of an amazing housekeeper. She was so proud of her work, of having prepared thousands of guest rooms during her career and she was so full of warmth. Even more memorable was [...]
Technology
iPads in Senior Housing: Useful or Frustrating?
Laurie Orlov examines the hype surrounding the usefulness of iPads for senior housing residents by looking at the possibilities, and possible frustrations for seniors using the devices and for the administration and staff who would be helping them. Hype alert — for senior housing residents — iPads may both amaze and confound. Caution — this [...]
Health & Wellness
5 Tips To Promote Literature In Your Retirement Community
5 tips to keep residents of your retirement community healthy, happy, active and social through a love of reading. Read more…
