In the intricate tapestry of senior living communities, a realm of stories is waiting to be uncovered that help point us toward a life enriched with meaning and purpose. As the driving force behind TSOLife’s data quality team, I’ve learned from seniors how wonderful life can be and how simple conversations can surprise us withContinue reading “Forging Heartfelt Connections: A Guide to Meaningful Interactions with Seniors”
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How to Plan Engaging Activities for Seniors in 2023
Seniors deserve to live active and fulfilling lives, and as activity directors, we play a crucial role in making that happen. An updated planning strategy for 2023 is essential to create engaging and meaningful senior living communities. This blog post will provide valuable tips to enhance your activity planning and ensure seniors have the opportunity to thrive if you want to level up your resident experience and enhance your senior’s quality of life. Learn more about TSOLife’s Resident Engagement solution.
How to Interview Someone with Dementia
Recording and preserving the life stories, lessons, and memories of our loved ones is a meaningful endeavor, especially when dealing with dementia. This article aims to raise awareness by providing valuable tips for interviewing someone with dementia. Whether you are a family member capturing stories or a caregiver working with residents, these tips will help facilitate successful interviews.
Unlocking Marketing Insights: Discover Your Senior Living Community Culture
Understanding the culture of your senior living community is a critical factor in unlocking marketing insights that can lead to higher occupancy rates. Demographic data alone is not enough to fully understand your residents’ unique preferences, interests, and motivations.
Streamlining Your Sales Process with Minerva
We’ll be taking a look at how resident data can influence sales tactics and strategies as well as helping to locate, entice, and secure more prospects for your sales team.
Improving Memory Recall in People with Dementia
To continue the month-long conversation for World Alzheimer’s Month, we’ve been taking a look at various topics surrounding Alzheimer’s and Dementia. This week, we’ll be diving into different methods anyone can use to help improve memory recall in people with Dementia.
How Staff Scheduling Can Influence Your Community
In this post, we’ll be looking at consistent assignment, when staff members routinely care for the same residents (in 80% of their shifts), and how this can create lasting benefits in your community.
Implementing Person-Centered Care into Our Communities
There are discrepancies between acknowledging the importance of PCC and implementing some of its practices into our communities. In this week’s blog post, we’ll look at how to implement Person-Centered Care into our communities.
Your Community’s First Impression
Much like with people, your community’s first impression is crucial to bringing in new residents as well as helping to retain the seniors already in your care.
Why Families Choose a Community
While it’s important to make sure potential residents and their families like your community, it’s also important to make sure that you have the capacity to care for them.