Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living

Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living
Author: Jill Vitale-Aussem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781938870828

With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 each day, the need for senior living is growing at a steep rate, and the aging services field has been hard at work preparing for these new customers. Current practices aim to bring the kind of comfort and amenities enjoyed at hotels and resorts to the settings we create for older adults to live in. But what if these efforts are misdirected? Interweaving research on aging, ideas from influential thinkers in the aging services field, and the author's own experiences managing and operating senior living communities, Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift challenges readers to question long-accepted practices, examine their own biases, and work toward creating vibrant cultures of possibility and growth for elders. Shining a light on her own professional field, Jill Vitale-Aussem exposes the errors of current thinking and demonstrates how a shift in perspective can effect real cultural transformation. Her book delves into society's inherent biases about growing older--where ageism, paternalism, and ableism abound--and provokes readers to examine how a youth-obsessed culture unconsciously impacts even the most well-meaning senior living policies, practices, and organizations. Deconstructing the popular hospitality model, for example, Vitale-Aussem explains how it can actually undermine feelings of purpose and independence. In its place, she proposes better ways to create opportunities for older people to exercise choice, autonomy, and self-efficacy. Filled with empowering stories of elders who find purpose and belonging within their senior residences, Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living builds on AARP's disrupt aging work and demonstrates that to truly transform senior living, we must dig deeper and create communities that promote the potential and value of the people who live and work in these settings.

Moving in the Right Direction

Moving in the Right Direction
Author: Bruce Nemovitz
Publisher: Danforth Book Distribution
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2007
Genre: Older people
ISBN: 9781887542456

Moving in the Right Direction shares Bruce's experience and expertise on the many issues involved when seniors consider moving from their long-term home. Now seniors all across the country -- as well as the friends and family who care for them -- can turn to this simple, direct, and comprehensive guide as they make this important transition.

Paths to Leadership in the Senior Living Industry

Paths to Leadership in the Senior Living Industry
Author: Matthew Lifschultz
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-06-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 3030539660

This book assembles many of the great leaders of the senior living and care industry to discuss their paths to and views on leadership. Each chapter provides readers with ideas, information, and inspiration on how to achieve leadership in this dynamic, mission-focused industry. It includes various strategies for success, such as promoting meaning and purpose in corporate culture, making decisions in the absence of perfect information, managing your personal assets of relationships and reputation, and finding competitive advantages through technology, training, and team-building. These leaders also share their experiences responding to COVID-19 and discuss how the pandemic may change the future of leadership in the industry. Whether your path starts in gerontology, nursing, social work, design, real estate, finance, law, operations, or technology, and whether one pursues work in the private, nonprofit, or government sectors, this volume provides a valuable resource for all aspiring and developing leaders in the senior living industry.

Your Guide to Finding a New Home After 50

Your Guide to Finding a New Home After 50
Author: Peter Keers
Publisher: Cantissimo Senior Living
Total Pages: 42
Release:
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

As we age, it seems a “sense of place” takes on greater significance. In our younger years, we may have moved around after leaving the family home. That nomadic pattern, perhaps, was symbolic of our search for a path in life. Once settling into a consistent lifestyle, we found ourselves living for longer stretches of time in one location or another. Then comes the time in later life when for various reasons, we consider (or are forced to consider) yet another relocation. This Cantissimo Senior Living eBook looks from various angles at moving after age 50. Whether you want to “age in place” in your current residence, desire a new home, or are compelled by circumstances to move, this eBook will help as you ponder the pros and cons in the decision-making process.

Navigating Assisted Living

Navigating Assisted Living
Author: Kristi Stalder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732455801

Designed as a practical guide through the complex world of senior living, this book offers support and guidance for families to collaborate, leverage one another's strengths, and work toward this higher goal of making sure that their loved ones thrive. Read about how to manage difficult conversations with your loved ones, critical questions to ask during a facility tour, financial breakdown including Medicare and Medicaid, overcoming challenging behaviors, the state-survey process, and much more. With limited resources on the market today, planning for Assisted Living can be overwhelming for those who are making difficult choices for their loved ones. Get to know the industry standards and understand the difference between Assisted Living, Independent Living, and Skilled Nursing. Author and former Community Relations Director at a prestigious assisted living community, Kristi Stalder, offers solutions to almost any situation; financial, behavioral, and emotional, so you can make an educated decision that will be in your loved one's best interest. Non-medical and simple, this book provides the facts and resources necessary to create a flawless transition and support through the entire process.

Reminiscence

Reminiscence
Author: Sunrise Senior Living (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

The Unicorn Project

The Unicorn Project
Author: David Slomovic
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Caregivers
ISBN: 9780692879399

This book will remove the fear and anxiety of senior living and care. Senior living is perhaps the most sensitive topic of all. To most, the feelings on this topic range from discomfort to fear to absolute paralysis at the very idea of this subject. When circumstances force you into this zone you are almost always alone, confused, conflicted, and feeling vulnerable and overwhelmed. No more. With this book you will now possess the ultimate guide to understanding exactly what the choices are, how to choose, why to choose, what to avoid, where the landmines are hidden, and (most importantly) how to make all the right moves. This is possible because for the first time an accomplished and experienced senior living owner/operator has written a tell-all for families to unlock the secrets to the mysterious world of independent and assisted living from the inside out. This cheat-sheet, now in large print, will give you the advantage in nearly every situation, and without it you will be at the mercy of others in more ways than you can imagine. Go behind the Gray Curtain to learn how to navigate these choppy waters. Chapters include The ABCs of Senior Living, Insider Touring Guide and Senior Living Secrets, The Critical Conversation No One Has, Secret Sauce, Dragon Seniors, and Smart Prepping For The Move. David Slomovic is a modern Renaissance man passionately focused on improving the future for all. After years as a Trial Attorney in the bloody field of criminal law he left law to join the family real estate business. For nearly 18 years, until his incredibly successful exit, he personally operated a family-owned 130 unit senior living Community in Orange County, California. Forced to start at the bottom, literally, the author used observations, creative marketing and operating solutions, unorthodox staff motivation techniques, and a unique remodel design from his own imagination, to transform his struggling asset into a profitable powerhouse that shattered the per-door sale record that existed at the time in Orange County, California. Since his exit Mr. Slomovic has been consulting with operators and developers regarding marketing and operating solutions while also evaluating new opportunities. Mr. Slomovic identifies the fixable flaws in the Industry that most Corporations and Communities do not even know they have, exposes the shocking secret reasons behind the industry's poor penetration rates, and makes an extraordinary case for the bright future success of senior living that the Aging Industry somehow fails to advance. David Slomovic was, much like you, thrown into this world with no notice and no net. His trials and tribulations will illuminate your path to critical information and practical answers. This is a step-by-step playbook to understand what the Communities are trying to do to you, how to make the right decisions at each turn, and how to ultimately be the hero for yourself and your loved ones. This book is for those who need to know the meaning of the industry jargon as well as the choices available without manipulation. It is written for the senior living employee to realize their powerful role in this growing industry. And it is for the Owners, Executives, and Thought Leaders of senior living to see that a better way for all involved exists if they just present the product honestly and create the senior living communities they would want for themselves and their families. The Unicorn Project reveals hidden truths about seniors, employees, the most common transition mistakes, and even criminal law that you never expected or knew before. Join Mr. Slomovic on his mission of discovery as he takes you through his extraordinary journey from criminal Trial Attorney to Assisted Living mogul in his new stunning and controversial book, The Unicorn Project: Insider Secrets of Senior Living Plus the Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Assisted Living.

My Last Stop

My Last Stop
Author: Margery Fridstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781687726179

"We never used the phrase 'last stop' or explicitly announced to our children that this was where we were going to die. Yet I think we all knew that was the plan." Margery Fridstein and her husband, Bob, were active seniors, working and skiing into their eighties. They were close to their adult children, scattered across the country, but valued their independence. So when health issues drew them away from their beloved home in the Colorado mountains, they looked for a place that would support their lifestyle now and eventually care for them if their health failed. Like tens of thousands of other Americans, they chose a Continuing Care Retirement Community. Fridstein, a psychotherapist with a lifetime of experience evaluating people and relationships, shares her resulting ups and downs in this intimate, clear, funny, and informative memoir. She's ready to answer the questions about retirement community living that matter to seniors but are rarely addressed by outsiders. What are the people like? What is the food like? What are the rules? What will I do all day? What if I get sick? Is it really possible--or even a good idea--to live with so many old people? And in her own matter-of-fact way, she also tackles tough questions about handling the loss of health and loved ones, and eventually end-of-life decisions. Charming and conversational, Margery's insights will be a valuable resource for seniors, and their families, who are considering their own decisions about aging well.

Senior Living

Senior Living
Author: Kelly Anne Rasmovich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre:
ISBN:

The day finally came, retirement! Excitement surrounded you as you entered your much anticipated and deserved "Golden Years"... only to soon realize that they may not be as golden as you once believed. We have found that many seniors find themselves lost once they settle into retirement. They've stopped dreaming. They feel a sense of lost identity. They question their purpose and what to do with the rest of their life. Sound like you? Good news - age is simply a number and does not restrict you from achieving everything you want in your life. In this book, we aim to help you rediscover who you are in this new phase of life and how to take advantage of your Golden Years. We'll show you how you're more capable of achieving your dreams now than ever before. It's as simple as knowing what you want and shifting your mindset to allow yourself to have it!

Ageism Unmasked

Ageism Unmasked
Author: Tracey Gendron
Publisher: Steerforth
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1586423231

Why do we still tolerate stereotypes and discrimination based on age? This bold account of the history and present-day realities of ageism by a nationally recognized gerontologist and speaker uncovers ageism's roots, impact, and how each of us can create a new reality of elderhood. Ageism Unmasked shifts the lens, enabling us to see that we tolerate, and sometimes actively promote, attitudes and behaviors toward differently aged people that we would reject and condemn if applied to any other group. It peels back the layers to expose how cultural norms and unconscious prejudices have seeped into our lives, silently shaping our treatment of others based on their age and our own misconceptions about aging—and about ourselves. Offering an all-inclusive approach, Dr. Tracey Gendron reveals the biases behind our false understanding of aging, sharing powerful opportunities for personal growth along with strategies to help create an anti-ageist society. Ageism Unmasked will help readers let go of our desperate need to stay young… exposing how we personally, systematically, structurally, and institutionally stigmatize being old. Ageism Unmasked will help readers appreciate both the challenges and opportunities of how we all age… showing how ageism is prejudice towards both younger and older people. Ageism Unmasked will help readers reset our expectations for getting old… providing the tools to anticipate and experience elderhood as a time of renewed meaning and purpose, empowering each of us to create our own definition of successful aging. Ageism Unmasked continues Dr. Gendron's transformative work inspiring people of all ages to embrace aging as our universal and lifelong process of developing over time — biologically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually.