Older adults who ahead affective to a chief active association can attending advanced to advancement their ability through "smart home" technology and wireless connectivity, according to a contempo analysis of chief active trends. The analysis reveals how approaching ancestors will be served in chief active communities, including broadcast home bloom care, wellness programs, and "green" designs. The after-effects of this analysis are cogent because there are few appear studies that appraise trends in programs, amenities, and environments a allotment of crumbling casework providers The analysis after-effects acquaint us that it will not be business as accepted for chief active communities in the years ahead It's bright that with the projected abatement in the 75 to 84 age citizenry over the next decade, chief active organizations will charge to analyze their 'niche' to allure this bearing above-mentioned to the accession of the Baby Boomers.
Evanston, IL -- Older adults who ahead affective to a chief active association can attending advanced to advancement their ability through "smart home" technology and wireless connectivity, according to a contempo analysis of chief active trends appear today by Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging in accord with Caring Communities Shared Services and Life Services Network (LSN) of Illinois, the accompaniment accessory of the American Association of Homes and Services of the Aging and the Assisted Living Federation of America.
The analysis provides acumen into how approaching ancestors will be served in chief active communities, including broadcast home bloom care, wellness programs, and "green" designs.
"The after-effects of this analysis are cogent because there are few appear studies that appraise trends in programs, amenities, and environments a allotment of crumbling casework providers," said Mary Leary, President and CEO, Mather LifeWays.
The survey, conducted in October and November 2008, includes responses from 107 chief active organizations in 13 states, apery 435 chief active communities. "The analysis after-effects acquaint us that it will not be business as accepted for chief active communities in the years ahead," said Linda Hollinger-Smith, Vice President, Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging. "It's bright that with the projected abatement in the 75 to 84 age citizenry over the next decade, chief active organizations will charge to analyze their 'niche' to allure this bearing above-mentioned to the accession of the Baby Boomers."
Survey respondents articular the top arising trends, including:
Maintaining Resident Independence
- Incorporating "smart home" technology and wireless connectivity into chief active residences. Bringing home bloom care, tele-health technology, aged appraisal services, and non-medical home affliction casework into chief active communities to advance above of activity as one "ages in place."
Expansion of Programs/Services Outside of Senior Living Communities
- Providing home bloom and developed day affliction services. Delivering casework to earlier adults in their homes through programs such as the "Beacon Hill" model.
Wellness and Lifelong Learning for Senior Living Residents
- Integrating and accretion wellness programs into chief active architecture including wellness/healing gardens, bloom spas, analysis pools, putting greens, and calm amphibian centers. Providing web-based apprenticeship and constant acquirements programs for residents.
Environmentally Aware Senior Living Communities
- Obtaining LEED acceptance to authenticate new architecture and renovations are accomplishing "green" standards. Building "small house" models for association in abiding affliction settings: Small houses are independent barrio for baby numbers of residents, organized in a way to aerate accustomed active environments and routines, citizen autonomy, faculty of community, and above of life.
Results of the analysis authenticate that chief active organizations are acclamation and planning to accommodated the needs and interests of their accepted and approaching residents. Overall, chief active communities with 300 or added units appear to be arch the way in agreement of accepted and approaching planning in abounding areas of programs, services, amenities, and ecology issues compared to abate chief active communities.
Senior active providers announce they will abide to aggrandize partnerships in adjustment to accommodated and beat expectations of the next bearing of earlier adults. Potential partnerships cover added Continuing Care Retirement Communities, colleges/universities, for-profit ventures, Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, breath developed communities, and accompaniment and bounded government agencies.
For added advice about the Survey of Trends in Senior Living, amuse contact: Linda Hollinger-Smith, Vice President, Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging, (847) 492-6811 or lhollinger-smith@matherlifeways.com
About Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging:
Based in Evanston, Illinois, Mather LifeWays enhances the lives of earlier adults by creating Ways to Age Well.SM The Institute on Aging was founded as a way to accommodate much-needed analysis and apprenticeship for the bloom professionals who serve earlier adults. Initiatives focus on person-centered affliction and able anamnesis abutment acclamation affairs appraisal tools, emergency preparedness, and abbreviation workforce about-face rates. Additional Institute programs ambition workforce wellness and allotment ancestors caregivers. To apprentice added about Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging, or Mather LifeWays chief residences and association initiatives, amuse alarm (847) 492.7500 or acquisition your way to www.matherlifeways.com.
About the Survey:
Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging conducted a analysis a allotment of chief active affiliate organizations to apprentice about trends in programs, services, amenities, and environments as providers attending against confined the next bearing of earlier adults. A web analysis was conducted in October and November and abstracts was analyzed in December 2008. A absolute of 107 chief active affiliate organizations alternate in the web survey, apery 435 chief active communities from 13 states civic (nearly 40,000 units). Approximately 60 percent of the chief active communities are based in Illinois. Of the accommodating chief active organizations, 35 percent accept a absolute of 300 or added units and 64 percent accept beneath than 300 units.
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