As your week winds down, take a few minutes to glean something from these Senior Housing and Care industry articles:

One person’s views on fixing issues in the senior housing industry:

http://seniorhousingforum.net/2012/02/fixing-the-senior-housing-crunch/

Do your residents have pets or are they thinking about a pet?

http://blog.carecyclesolutions.net/tips-for-the-elderly-puppy-love/

Do you have Happy Campers?

http://tinyurl.com/79rsz3w

Enjoy the big game on Sunday!  Look for the New LifeStyles ad during the 1st quarter.  Well, we couldn’t afford an ad, so we gave two fans free hot dogs and sodas to hold up our guides during every timeout and paint our URL on their chests.

Great tips on building and managing your team:

http://tinyurl.com/6ugbm4j

Senior Living Art Showcase:

http://tinyurl.com/7d6htr9

Never hurts to have a common sense refresher!:

http://www.boomerplaces.com/common-sense/

Its the calm before the Super Bowl storm this week.  Plenty of extra time to read informative articles from the Senior Living Industry:

Always nice to lead with optimism:

http://tinyurl.com/8ytz9ro

Great reasons to get involved at senior centers:

http://www.boomerplaces.com/boomer-senior-center/

Needed Technologies Advice from LeadingAge:

http://www.leadingage.org/Article.aspx?id=4387

Expectations: Do You Have Them?

The Pulse of Your Community

How Do You Get Your Message Out – Content Marketing – Part 5: Broadcasting Your Content

Do you discuss T.E.A.M. with your senior living team?

Jan/Feb edition of Leading Age Magazine

January/February Edition of Senior Living Executive

As we start the new year, we will attempt to continue to provide value every Friday afternoon:

Social media is for connecting, not just for pushing your message:

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2095174/people-connect-marketed

Digital Trends for 2012:

http://tinyurl.com/7oznn7z

A great community program:

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/a-community-time-bank/

On-page and Off-Page SEO: Is Searchability on Your Radar?

10 Powerful Senior Living Statistics

Who Should Be on Your Social Media Team?

10 Digital Trends to Look for in 2012

We will start blogging again on Jan.4  Until then, Happy Holidays!

10 Tips for Successful Event Marketing

Is On-Boarding Really Necessary?

15 Senior Living Competitors in 3 days

Online Tool Forges Connection with Residents’ Families

Here are some articles that we found informative and/or entertaining:

Reader Survey Results: Social Media Marketing in Private Duty Home Care:

http://blog.privatedutytoday.com/2011/11/reader-survey-results-social-media.html

SEO Tips for 2012, if you aren’t doing your own SEO, make sure somebody is!

http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2011/10/13/seo-tips-2012/

A good reminder about change for all of us:

http://tinyurl.com/7gtrpxo

A beautiful, cool day here at Headquarters.  In the shrinking distance, we hear the thundering onset of the holidays, but for now, we can relax with the last remnants of Halloween candy and sort through some senior housing and care industry articles:

A very personal reminder regarding how a lead’s status can change in an instant:

http://tinyurl.com/6kaath3

A new, convenient and hopefully comfortable way to monitor dementia patients.  Maybe Nike will buy the patent and add a swoosh?

http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/27/a-gps-enabled-shoe-to-track-wandering-alzheimers-patients/

A good view and recommendations on the current and future of the senior housing industry:

http://seniorhousingforum.net/2011/10/the-senior-housing-gap-part-1/

Enjoy the calm before the storm……