This article is sponsored by Dementia By Day. This article is based on a Senior Housing News discussion with Rachael Wonderlin, CEO and Founder of Dementia By Day, Jessica McCollum, Vice President of Operations at ThriveMore, and Reed VanderSlik, President and CEO of ThriveMore. This discussion took place on May 16th, 2024 at the SHN […]
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This article is sponsored by Dementia By Day. This article is based on a Senior Housing News discussion with Rachael Wonderlin, owner of Dementia By Day, Trista Wilson, COO with English Meadows, and Mike Williams, CEO and co-founder of English Meadows. The discussion took place on July 20, 2023 during SHN BRAIN Memory Care Conference […]
If you’ve ever watched the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, you’ve seen improvisational comedy. Known as “improv,” this theater technique creates short, structured games of communication and imagination, offering spontaneous entertainment to audience members and a unique challenge to participants. It is, in other words, perfect for caregivers seeking new ways to engage […]
Senior living operators have been enacting changes in operations since the Covid-19 pandemic began, but some adaptations have been fleeting while others have proven longer-lasting. Recent conversations with several executives — including with large providers such as Brookdale, Frontier and Senior Lifestyle — highlight that operators now have committed to new practices across essentially every […]
As senior living operators continue to rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic, some are taking creative steps to invigorate their marketing or to launch new brands. The senior living consumer of today remains the same, but reaching them has changed drastically since the pandemic began in 2020, said Janine Witte, who works as the senior vice […]
This article is sponsored by Dementia By Day. In this Voices interview, Senior Housing News sits down with Dementia By Day founder Rachael Wonderlin to learn her specific techniques for teaching dementia care, why improvisational theater is a valuable teaching tool for dementia care and why she believes in — and trademarked — the phrase […]