Kevin Daly

Founder, Principal
Kevin Daly Architects
Los Angeles, CA
  • 24-K. AIA Design for Aging Review: Affordable Housing Merit Award Winners

    • Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

    24-K. AIA Design for Aging Review: Affordable Housing Merit Award Winners

    Go behind the scenes of the American Institute of Architects 2023 Design for Aging Review to meet the designers of two award-winning affordable senior housing projects. Gramercy Senior Housing, built on the site of a former towing yard owned by the City of Los Angeles, provides much-needed housing to older adults who struggle to find affordable housing in one of America’s most expensive housing markets. Stonewall House in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood is the country’s largest LGBTQ-welcoming senior housing development. Presenters will explore how architecture and design foster inclusive communities, how affordability and sustainability coexist, and how integrating senior housing into the larger community improves residents’ quality of life.

Lynn Daly

Executive Vice President
HJ Sims
Fairfield, CT
  • 25-L. Retooling the Care Continuum to Create a Sustainable Future

    • Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

    25-L. Retooling the Care Continuum to Create a Sustainable Future

    Life plan communities are thinking in new ways about the care continuum as they carry out their missions in the face of overwhelming operational challenges. These communities no longer expect residents to progress in a linear fashion from one level of care to the next. Instead, they are creating an environment that allows residents to participate in the community’s life without ever living on campus or receiving long-term care in a dedicated skilled care environment. This session will unveil a new way of thinking about the continuum that blurs the lines between levels of living and care and ensures that care can be accessed and delivered in diverse ways and settings. Find out how your life plan community can help drive this change.

  • 62-F. Serving the Middle Market: How to Expand Your Mission

    • Monday, October 28, 2024

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    62-F. Serving the Middle Market: How to Expand Your Mission

    Most older adults are “stuck in the middle.” They have too many assets to qualify for affordable housing but insufficient resources to be eligible for a traditional life plan community. Senior living providers can correct this disparity. During this session, experts in the senior living, financial, and development fields will share a variety of best practices for creating a financially viable life plan community that serves the needs of middle-income older adults. You’ll learn about creative financing solutions you can use to grow your portfolio and best practices for planning, constructing, and operating middle-market communities. Discover how to serve a more comprehensive economic range of consumers while maintaining the quality for which you are known.

Madison Daminato

Operations Coordinator
Perfect Pair
Ann Arbor, MI
  • 112-H. Perfect Pair: Connecting Generations Two People at a Time

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    112-H. Perfect Pair: Connecting Generations Two People at a Time

    Recent research shows that a third of older adults report feeling isolated, and more than two-thirds of college students reported feeling “very lonely” over the past year. This session shares the story of a national, student-run organization dedicated to changing those statistics. Leaders of “Perfect Pair” will explain how their program pairs older adults and college students so they can spend quality time together while re-engaging in shared passions and interests. Presenters will describe their extensive catalog of creative programming, which is available to pairs at no cost. Explore two of Perfect Pair’s national initiatives, which offer memory care-specific programming and connect LTBTQ+ older and younger adults. Find out how you can bring this intergenerational program to your community.

Laura Darling

VP of Communications
Front Porch
Glendale, CA
  • 52-A. Should You Transition Away from Skilled Nursing Care?

    • Sunday, October 27, 2024

    1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

    52-A. Should You Transition Away from Skilled Nursing Care?

    The demand for skilled nursing home care has waned in recent years due to the improved health of older adults, reimbursement changes, and increases in care provided in non-skilled settings. This session will focus on three senior living communities that are transitioning from skilled nursing to alternate care models. Presenters will describe a renovation project that converted skilled nursing spaces to memory care, a campus expansion that closed an on-campus skilled nursing setting, and a ground-up life plan community development that offered comprehensive care without on-campus skilled nursing. Join colleagues to discuss how transitions in care delivery can impact financial performance and their implications for strategic planning, financial management, resident relations, and operations.

Michelle DeCurtis

Research Strategy Lead, Senior Associate
Gensler Research Institute
New York, NY
  • 19-F. Are You Ready to Develop an Active Adult Community?

    • Monday, October 28, 2024

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    19-F. Are You Ready to Develop an Active Adult Community?

    Active Adult communities are quickly emerging as the new frontier in aging services. This session will examine the business case for these 55+ developments, which offer resort-type amenities, social activities, and a range of housing options, from stand-alone residential products with no services to integrated developments featuring an extensive care network. Presenters will share research, benchmarking data, and a cross-market perspective as they explore opportunities for established care providers to develop Active Adult communities alone or in partnership with outside developers. Get tips on designing the site, buildings, and residential units for an Active Adult community that will appeal to a new generation of older adults.

Vicki Deitzler

VP Residential Living
Cornwall Manor
Cornwall, PA
  • 111-H. The Benefits of Organic Farming in a Senior Living Community

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    111-H. The Benefits of Organic Farming in a Senior Living Community

    The well-being of older adults and the health of Pennsylvania soils received welcome boosts when Cornwall Manor Retirement Community established an organic farm on its campus in collaboration with the Rodale Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting organic farming. The 2.5-acre Trailside Organic Farm supports the dining needs of the life plan community and offers residents opportunities to help with farm tasks and purchase fresh produce at weekly farm markets. Presenters will explain the farm’s operations, detail Rodale’s investment, and describe the public relations and marketing benefits the farm brings to the Cornwall Manor. Don’t have room on your campus for a farm? Rodale Institute executives will tell you how to partner with local organic farms to engage residents in agriculture.

Diana Delgado

President & CEO
Eaton Senior Communities, Inc.
Lakewood, CO
  • 92-E. Improving Transitions of Care through EMS Partnerships

    • Monday, October 28, 2024

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    92-E. Improving Transitions of Care through EMS Partnerships

    Emergency medical services (EMS) and aging services providers share a common mission to provide high-quality services to older adults. Yet, transitions of care often suffer because these two providers only interact during times of crisis when both are under tremendous pressure. During this session, an EMS professional and the top executive of a senior living organization will discuss how aging services and EMS providers can improve care transitions by learning to be collaborative and transparent. Presenters will review past, current, and emerging EMS models, explain how these models impact aging services, and offer best practices for working with EMS providers to improve care transitions.

Elizabeth DePena

Property Manager
AHEPA 343 Apartments
Fishers, IN
  • 144-G. Enhancing Quality through Teamwork in Affordable Housing

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    8:15 – 9:15 a.m.

    144-G. Enhancing Quality through Teamwork in Affordable Housing

    Working in subsidized senior housing communities is most rewarding when all the community’s team members pull in the same direction. Unfortunately, this teamwork doesn’t always come naturally due to restraints and restrictions imposed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. During this session, representatives of AHEPA Senior Living in Fishers, IN, will share their secret for improving teamwork between a housing community’s property management and service coordination teams. Presenters will explain how to establish healthy communication and working relationships across these teams by setting clear boundaries, being supportive, and fostering understanding. Discover the rewards and benefits of teamwork, explore the need for confidentiality in communications about residents, and review approaches you might take to resolving difficult situations.

Melissa Destout

Associate Principal
Perkins Eastman Architects PC
Pittsburgh, PA
  • 56-C. Do Life Plan Communities Need a Skilled Nursing Component?

    • Sunday, October 27, 2024

    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

    56-C. Do Life Plan Communities Need a Skilled Nursing Component?

    Many life plan communities are looking for a different way to address the long-term care needs of their residents. Some organizations are reducing or eliminating their skilled care component or building new communities without skilled nursing. Others are re-building their long-term care products to be more consumer-friendly. This session will look closely at both options. Presenters will explore whether skilled nursing care is an essential part of a continuum in life plan communities, the steps involved in deciding whether to strengthen or dismantle a skilled nursing setting, and the financial implications of that decision. Learn about alternatives to including skilled care in the continuum and how to determine what your community needs.

John DiMaggio

CEO
BlueOrange Compliance
Columbus, OH
  • 11-J. Are You Inviting Hackers to Compromise Your Cybersecurity?

    • Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

    11-J. Are You Inviting Hackers to Compromise Your Cybersecurity?

    No provider of aging services would volunteer to have their technology systems hacked, but many providers unknowingly invite hackers to compromise their cybersecurity. This session will explore common practices and pitfalls that leave senior living organizations open to potential harm and actions providers can take to avoid dangerous situations. You’ll hear from a technology consultant who works with hundreds of providers nationwide, a penetration tester who acts as a “bad guy” to help provider organizations assess and test their vulnerabilities, and a chief information officer who will offer the provider’s perspective on cybersecurity. Hear stories of providers who fell prey to hackers and learn how to promote a culture of security awareness in your organization.

Amy Dore

Professor & Program Director, Aging Services Leadership
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Highlands Ranch, CO
  • 143-F. Embracing Students as Future Leaders in Aging Services

    • Monday, October 28, 2024

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    143-F. Embracing Students as Future Leaders in Aging Services

    The field of aging services faces a pressing challenge: finding innovative strategies to recruit and retain employees to meet the projected demand of 20 million caregiving positions by 2040. Fresh approaches are essential to tackle this critical need. This session will present a solution that includes actively recruiting from colleges and universities that offer aging services and gerontology programs. Representatives from Metropolitan State University of Denver will demonstrate how to stay ahead of the recruitment curve by creating entry-level job opportunities, volunteer experiences, intergenerational learning moments, and internships to attract college graduates to the field. Attendees will hear from current students, alumni, and faculty and leave with practical strategies for collaborating with educational institutions to address the workforce shortage.

Derek Dujardin

Creative Director and Brand Strategist
3rdPlus
Seattle, WA
  • 84-K. Unleashing Your Nonprofit Superpowers to Boost Census

    • Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

    84-K. Unleashing Your Nonprofit Superpowers to Boost Census

    Nonprofit life plan communities are the superheroes of the senior living world. So why are so many communities losing census to for-profit communities? Your nonprofit status brings with it a wealth of powerful advantages, but communicating those advantages to prospective residents takes time and effort. This session will help census-challenged nonprofit communities identify game-changing messaging that will improve their marketing, sales, hiring, and fundraising. Presenters will share a dozen impactful nonprofit messages and stories proven to resonate with different target audiences. They’ll also show you how to identify and mitigate operational activities and behavior patterns that can weaken sales performance, depress lead generation, and impact census.