Patricia Sheehan
Patricia Sheehan was Editor in Chief of I Advance Senior Care / Long Term Living from 2010-2013. She is now manager, communications at Nestlé USA.
How to grow your rehab business
Healthcare reform and other changes in the marketplace are having a significant effect on rehabilitation service providers. In addition to factors Read More » Inspiration is contagious
There's something about being in the company of smart, creative, spirited people that energizes me and inspires me to dream bigger dreams. Read More » Comfort and joy
Willson Hospice House, Albany, Georgia Ila Burdette, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal Perkins+Will Page 42 When Ila Burdette describes her experience Read More » 2011 Roundtable: Collaboration drives design innovation
Collaboration and community involvement are common themes in this year's DESIGN roundtable discussion. Jurors become particularly animated when Read More » Bringing culture change to the regulatory process
I checked into the requisite regulatory session at the EFA conference this morning with a bit of trepidation, thinking it would be a snoozefest and Read More » New Urbanism for senior living appeals to Boomers
New Urbanism—a development model that integrates housing, retail, and amenity services—is not a new concept. But the integration of senior living Read More » DESIGN 2011 Best in Show: Willson Hospice House, Albany, Georgia
Ila Burdette, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal • Perkins+Will Congratulations to this year’s winner of Best in Show! When Ila Burdette describes her Read More » Youth and wisdom converge at EFA
Senior living designers and architects are an engaging bunch—at least the ones I’ve met at Long-Term Living’s Environments for Aging conference. At Read More » DESIGN 2011 Citation of Merit Winners Announced
From left to right: Patricia Sheehan, Editor-in-Chief, Long-Term Living; Ila Burdette, principal, Perkins+Will; Kenneth Moore, Read More » Follow our Environments for Aging coverage all next week
Advances in design for senior living environments have never been more exciting or innovative. Collaboration among long-term care providers, Read More » It’s OPTIMA Award time: Send your submission!
One of the highly anticipated rites of spring here at Long-Term Living is our “call for entries” for the OPTIMA Award—an annual program that confers Read More » Six months in
The mad dash to train for, organize, and implement the MDS 3.0 assessment process has come and gone. Long-term care (LTC) administrators have had Read More » Service drives transportation at The Peaks
Drivers Bill Och (left) and Dave Bramer keep The Peaks' vehicles in good condition while juggling the demands of busy schedules and dependent Read More » 5 steps to a proactive compliance program
With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Congress mandated nursing home compliance above and beyond the annual surveys Read More » A special challenge of MDS 3.0 Section M: Skin Conditions
One of the rewards of editing Long-Term Living is fostering friendships and professional kinship with providers, clinicians, academics, and policy Read More » March preview: Annual DESIGN supplement
Coming next month is Long-Term Living’s highly anticipated 15th Annual DESIGN Environments for Aging supplement. This yearly publication is a special Read More » Ad takes cheap shot at the elderly
Like millions of American citizens, I took part in that annual rite of revelry last Sunday night: The viewing of the televised Super Bowl football Read More » Here come the Boomers
The Baby Boomers, of which I am a member, have been analyzed and documented and marketed to relentlessly since the first wave of World War II U.S. Read More » Report calls Alzheimer’s ‘the defining disease of Baby Boomers’
Image courtesy of the Alzheimer's Association “Generation Alzheimer’s” report. Click for larger version. Read More » ‘Alternative’ hospice therapies are surprisingly prevalent
Types of complementary and alternative therapies offered by hospice care providers: United States, 2007. Click image for larger version. Read More » Online tool helps seniors determine dementia risk
Attention to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia issues has ratcheted up significantly in recent months. Whether it’s a result of effective lobbying by Read More » Judging the best in senior living design
Last week a highly esteemed, high-spirited group of long-term care designers, architects, providers, and academics convened in Greenville, South Read More » The new age for Boomers begins now
The Baby Boomers, of which I am a member, have been analyzed and documented and marketed to relentlessly since the first wave of World War II U.S. Read More » Ring in the new
I love fresh starts. I consider myself expert at them. Come January 1, I jump out of bed (if I haven't overindulged the previous evening), and set Read More » Keeping the faith
Long-term care owners and providers are engaged in an ongoing struggle to maintain solvent facilities and provide quality care while dodging waves of Read More » A few minutes with Majd
An “Idea House” resident room equipped with technology upgrades. Last month I was privileged to meet with Majd Alwan, PhD, director of the Center Read More » Boomers to inherit an estimated $8.4 trillion
Here’s a ray of sunshine amid all the bleak economic news of late: A study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College for the Metlife Read More » Anticipating the family advocate in long-term care
A dear friend of mine called last week looking for answers. Her 75-year-old father, having battled melanoma for the past year, had fallen at home and Read More » Support Long-Term Living by voting it best industry Web site
The Long-Term Living team loves a challenge, which is why we’re excited that we’ve been nominated to the SeniorHomes.com Best of the Web contest in Read More » 