A Parting Word – By David Ammons

This month, I have asked Brandon Hair, Executive Director of Springmoor Retirement Community in North Hills, Raleigh, to talk about an exciting evolution underway in the skilled nursing world. As more skilled nursing facilities adapt to a more homelike model than a traditional hospital model, [...]

Different communities handle their Waiting List or Priority List with their own rules and policies. It is important to get on a Waiting List or two or three. It is even more important to Make A Plan. More and more seniors witnessed the need for their parents to have a plan and now it is time for them to make their own plans. [...]

A Continuing Care Retirement Community may desire to provide or arrange for continuing care services, including home care services, to an individual who has entered into a continuing care contract with the provider but is not yet receiving lodging. [...]

I enjoy writing this column every quarter and I hope that my insight or the insight provided by other senior industry professionals has been helpful or enjoyable for you. This quarter I am going to share the wide spectrum of activity that we are currently involved with at my company, [...]

The national average Covid vaccination rate is about 50% for employees working in retirement communities, even those working directly with residents in long term setting. This is very frustrating to some residents and their families, and there are those that feel very strongly that employees should be required to be vaccinated. [...]

What is a Retirement Community? What will a Retirement Community be in the Future? What has a Global Pandemic done to the direction Retirement Communities will go? These questions continue to be asked and evolve. [...]

As I am writing this issue’s article at the end of September, I can say that it seems almost all conversations begin with something about COVID-19. This is true in personal conversations as well as work related as we seek to stay current on the Virus’ impact on our retirement communities [...]

The retirement industry that I work in which includes; Independent living (IL), assisted living (AL), memory care and skilled care as well as when these are combined such as in a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) setting and all have been forced to respond to Covid-19 and the pandemic. [...]

In the Fall issue, we learned from guest writer Chris Burns that nearly 85% of people ages 60 and older own a cell phone or smartphone. But how is this age group using their phones? Many of us have witnessed our kids helping grandma out with her phone [...]

I have written in past articles about the categories of retirement living. In the broadest of strokes these include on a continuum of living independently; Active Adult, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Skilled Care. These various types of retirement housing options may be free- standing or combined with [...]