Is Senior Living the New Best Medicine?
Last year, we heard the bad news—loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking (Cigna); loneliness could increase risk of dementia by 40 percent…Read More
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Checking In On CCRCs
How does the type of senior living community chosen by seniors influence their overall health and wellness? The Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging and Northwestern University are one year…Read More
Life Care Services Gains Traction with CCRC ‘Navigators,’ Expands Rental Brands
Life Care Services has continued to hone its focus on wellness throughout its large portfolio of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), also known as life…Read More
Study: Living in Life Plan Communities Improves Quality of Life
GRAND RAPIDS, MI–Clark, a Grand Rapids-based senior living community, today announced positive early results from a national study conducted by Northwestern University and the Mather…Read More
In Later Years, Your House May Be Bad for Your Health
The recent results of the first of a five-year study being conducted by Chicago-based Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging and Northwestern University, found that nearly…Read More
Life Plan Communities Positively Affect Resident Wellness, Study Finds
Residents of life plan communities (also called continuing care retirement communities) reported more healthy behaviors and scored higher on positive measures of emotional, social, physical,…Read More
Mather LifeWays Research Shows Life Plan Communities Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults
EVANSTON, Ill. — New research released last week by Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging shows that continuing care retirement community — or life plan community…Read More
Life Plan Communities Excel at Promoting Wellness Among Residents
Residents of life plan communities across the United States are generally experiencing higher levels of wellbeing than older adults living in the general population. That’s…Read More
Senior Choices: Retirement Communities Look to Serve Active, Independent Adults
When Fred and Marie Ibbetson began telling friends they had decided to move into Asbury Place of Maryville, a retirement community, some wondered just what…Read More
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