Fresh Approaches in Senior Living: Rethinking Processes and Practices at Your Facility

Senior care facilities should aim to continually grow and improve the quality of care provided to residents. Part of this process should include a periodic reexamination of current processes and practices, and an openness to trying fresh new approaches in senior care. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that ingenuity, open-mindedness, and creativity are powerful assets in the senior care industry.

Breaking out of old patterns can be difficult. Established practices create a sense of structure and consistency. They’re familiar and reassuring. Sticking to established routines is easier than creating new habits, and it’s often difficult to find the time necessary to rethink processes and imagine new approaches.

iAdvance Senior Care has been proud to share insights from professionals who have taken new approaches to processes and practices within the industry. These approaches tackle some of the major challenges senior care operations currently face, including staff recruitment and retention, engaging in effective marketing efforts, and building census. Industry leaders have identified these new approaches in an effort to not only solve a problem, but to do better and to improve the status quo. 

The result is creative approaches that any senior care organization may benefit from implementing. Whether you’re looking to rethink your marketing strategies or change your staffing practices to create new upward mobility opportunities, reexamining your current practices opens up the opportunity for improvement and innovation. 

In striving for constant growth in senior care, there is never a bad time to reevaluate your organization’s practices. You should look not only at what’s working, but start to ask hard questions, like what could be working better and where your practices may be doing a disservice to your organization. By embracing some of these ideas and rethinking the habits present in your senior care organization, you can transform your operations and create practices that consistently deliver better results.

Our aim with this report is to help you and your organization discover new ways to think about senior care practices and continue to improve operations and conditions in your facility for both residents and staff.