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Health and Wellness

Seniors Go Back To School For Brain Health

Senior Lifestyle Corporation’s Best of the Best winning program, Brain Health University, offers a fun, engaging, and social way for residents to improve memory, intellect, and overall cognitive functioning.

Resource Provides Tools To Fight Bed Bugs

Missed ALFA’s bed bug webinar series? Check out the highlights or get a comprehensive look at how to detect and eliminate bed bugs in your senior living community by listening to the full webinar recording in ALFA’s new bed bug tool kit.

Some Retirees Seek Senior Living Options at Universities

With occupancy levels well above the industry average and often running a wait list for admission, senior living communities with university affiliations are a hot commodity for those seeking lifelong learning and ever-higher education.

Tailored Exercise Programs Produce Measurable Results

Senior Living Communities’ Best of the Best Winning Purpose-Based Wellness program tailors exercise programs to women with osteoporosis, individuals with Type 2 Diabetes, and other populations to improve health and create data invaluable for hospital part

Elmcroft Senior Living, Vitality Club Cyclers

Residents at four Elmcroft Senior Living communities are improving their lower body strength and balance by touring a different country by bicycle each month. Through Vitality Club Cyclers, residents try to log enough miles on a recumbent NuStep bike mach

Vitamin D Minimizes Seniors’ Fracture Risk

A New England Journal of Medicine analysis of over a dozen studies found that a high daily dose of vitamin D can consistently prevent fractures in seniors, while high doses of calcium diluted the positive effects of vitamin D.

Supreme Court Rules on Affordable Care Act

The Supreme Court upheld the most controversial portion of the healthcare law, the individual mandate, but limited the Medicaid expansion provisions of the new law.

More Residential Care Data Released By Government

The CDC has released more data from the 2010 survey of residential care communities. The new data brief includes information on the demographic makeup of those living in residential care communities and health status of those living in senior living commu