Most Americans Predict Alzheimer’s Cure in Their Lifetimes

Fifty-four percent of Americans believe researchers will find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease in their lifetimes, according to a recent CBS News report, which also examines the latest clinical trials underway and Medicare costs associated with treating individuals with Alzheimer’s.

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Caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease triples the average Medicare expenditure per [...]

Teaching the Press a Lesson

Senior living executives, residents, family members, and advocates of senior living everywhere are singing the praises of Bob Elmer, administrator of The Elms Assisted Living community in Westerly, Rhode Island. Elmer recently had issue with an article in his local newspaper. Like many members of the press with little experience in the senior living space, the reporter [...]

New York’s Center for Living Has Celebrity Support

Seniors in and around New York now have access to the Martha Stewart Center for Living. The lifestyle empress and celebrity financed the center, part of Mount Sinai Medical Center, in honor of her late mother.
In an interview with CNN.com’s Alina Cho, Stewart – whose mother, also named Martha, passed away two years ago [...]

More Seniors Seek Adventure Activities

The so-called experiential marketplace is seeing a surge in older consumers interested in adventure activities, such as wing-walking, biking tours, and global travel – a trend senior living communities may want to tap.
The New York Times reports on a new George Washington University study, which shows that the “the so-called experiential marketplace – sensation, education, [...]

ALFA Award Nominations Deadline Draws Near

Just one more week until the January 15 deadline for the ALFA Heroes and Best of the Best Awards programs. These awards programs and the recognition they bring to deserving senior living companies and staff do so much more than give credit where credit is due. They help to advance the mission of operational excellence [...]

New Year, New Challenges,
Cutting-Edge Solutions

As senior living providers throughout the country begin their 2010 operations, it’s certain that they’ll be met with new opportunities and challenges. ALFA will continue to provide the strategic solutions to those challenges through a bevy of resources, including its publications and tool kits, advocacy efforts, recognition programs, social media efforts – and now, just [...]

To Make Change Happen, Tell a Good Story

The best strategy executives can adopt when seeking to accomplish companywide change is to share insightful stories with employees that will help them truly understand the initiative, says Duke Energy CEO James Rogers. And this doesn’t accomplish just intellectual understanding, Rogers adds. It achieves an emotional understanding that is critical to success.

Senior living executives, frontline [...]

Honoring Seniors Who Served

A video report by CNN.com looks at Honor Flight, an organization that provides WWII veterans with free flights to the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. Many WWII veterans are residents of senior living communities – could Honor Flight benefit a resident at your community?
Honor Flight is the brainchild of Earl Morse, a [...]

When Alzheimer’s Affects a Marriage

The latest issue of ALFA Update features a video report by The Wall Street Journal that looks at the challenges spouses of individuals with Alzheimer’s must face, particularly as they try to cope with loneliness.
Alicia Mundy, reporter for The Journal, comments on various interviews the newspaper has conducted with psychologists, members of the clergy, and family members [...]

No Place for Union Strikes in
Senior Living

Posted by Paul Williams
Senior Director of Government Relations, ALFA
On Tuesday, the largest transportation union in Philadelphia went on strike over wage, pension, and health-care issues. As a result, thousands of citizens who rely on Philadelphia’s buses, subways, and trolleys were forced to find alternative transportation, and many were unable to do so. For many of [...]