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WEB FEATURE

Assessing my parents’ housing prospects

A personal account of the senior housing search by Amy Foster Trenz

While I sat in the day-and-a-half summit session on advanced sales and marketing for senior housing, my parents were sitting in their beachfront condominium just two miles south of the conference hotel. My parents, who will turn 85 next month, are recent full-time Florida residents after spending the last 20 years splitting their time and lives between the Midwestern town of my youth and Naples.

They’ve both victoriously battled cancerous cells, but in hindsight those occurrences appear to be anomalies. Overall, their health has been remarkably good: healthy eaters, avid exercisers, mental fortitude.

Until recently.

(Editor’s note: Trenz, a marketing expert, recounts the senior housing search for her parents as the increasingly important baby-boomer decision maker. Based on her firsthand experience, she sees what is and is not working with senior housing marketing. Read the full story here: https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com/TrenzSeniorHousing.)

PRODUCT INFO

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Readers say… the Long-Term Living Web site is featuring a new poll every Monday. Here are last month’s most popular polls:

Over the past few years, our facility has seen an increase in residents with:

What is your response to LTL blogger Lisa Cini’s question, “Are nurses’ stations still valuable to patient care?”

EXPERT BLOGGING

Are nurses’ stations still valuable to patient care?

In what turned out to be the most popular blog ever visited on our Web site, Lisa Cini, ASID, IIDA, questions the need for archaic nurses’ stations in today’s LTC facilities and asks, “Shouldn’t interior design keep pace with technology?” Read her blog and comment at

https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com/CiniNursesStationsBlog.

Develop your personal brand for career success (video-with song!)

Consultant and video blog guru Anthony Cirillo discusses the difficulty healthcare workers have in selling themselves as a personal brand. Visit

https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com/CirilloBrandingBlog for his insights-and also a little number sung by the man himself. Long-Term Living 2010 February;59(2):6

Anthony Cirillo

Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC, is president of The Aging Experience. He’s a passionate advocate for family caregivers and older adults, helping them lead a quality life through a platform of educated aging – physically, emotionally and financially. Cirillo is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives with a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania, His clients have ranged from the Cleveland Clinic, Unisys, and King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Carolinas Health Care, Novant Health, Wall Street startups and many more. Anthony serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for PPS Alert for Long-Term Care and is an editorial board member for the Journal of Aging and Geriatric Psychiatry.