2020 Best of the Best Awards: The Stories Behind the Honorees
August 3, 2020
The Argentum Best of the Best Awards recognize innovative programs, products, and services that solve a challenge, advance excellence, and improve the future of senior living.
2020 Hero Awards: The Stories Behind the Honorees
August 3, 2020
The Argentum Hero Awards, presented by Benchmark, recognize ideal representatives of people serving in the senior living field. Nominated by regional/company executives and executive directors, these individuals to show the highest levels of excellence, caring, and dedication. A special category, Hero Award for Leadership in the Face of a Natural Disaster, was introduced in 2018…
Providers and Partners Fulfill Their Missions, Far and Wide
June 18, 2020
“There will be some new heroes before this is all over,” wrote Michel Augsburger, chairman and CEO at Chancellor Health Care, LLC. He’s correct. There are too many heroes to name, even as of early May, when this is being written. Even on a normal day, people in this industry go above and beyond. During…
Residents’ Wealth of Experience Enriches Community Operations
February 18, 2020
Alice Willard has an impressive resume: highlights include nursing at hospitals including Massachusetts General, being a clinical research nurse for an NIH-funded center, and running her own business on the side as a florist. At her latest job, she’s managed to save management a good bit of money by using her wholesale connections to get…
Argentum Launches Senior Living Works Expansion Focused on the Future Workforce
January 23, 2020
(Alexandria, Va.) – Argentum is pleased to announce a new resource available from Senior Living Works. Careers in Caring, found on the Senior Living Works website, aims to share information with jobseekers and students on opportunities available in the senior living industry. Showcased online are 20 careers across caregiving and nursing, hospitality and resident services,…
Writer Becomes a Catalyst for Multicultural Alzheimer’s Awareness
December 20, 2019
Writer Marita Golden didn’t set out to become a champion of Alzheimer’s disease awareness. She was simply researching what would become her 17th published work, the novel “The Wide Circumference of Love.” But she came across the statistic that African Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s. “It blew me away,” she would later…
Bringing the Best Together for the 2020 Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference
December 13, 2019
Alexandria, Va.—The pace of growth and the number of challenges in the senior living industry increases daily, but so do the opportunities to create better senior living together. Argentum designed the 2020 Senior Living Executive Conference & Expo to deliver what industry leaders, professionals, and advocates need most to help companies, communities, and residents thrive.…
Breaking Through: A Focus on Women in Senior Living Leadership
April 2, 2019
Women dominate in the senior living workforce. Four out of five professionals who care for seniors are women—and women don’t just work in senior living: They lead. Unlike in the general business world, where the glass ceiling is still very much intact, women hold nearly 70 percent of senior living management jobs. Last fall Argentum…
After a Successful Modeling Career, It’s Nice to Sleep In
February 13, 2019
“Age is a number. Old is an attitude. You can talk old, walk old, act old, and dress old. I’m just not ready for that yet,” says Jeni Freeland Berry, a senior living resident who is 93 years young. Berry, who calls Brookdale Freedom Square in Seminole, Fla., home, is the oldest Miss Florida and…
Personalization: A Hallmark of Community
December 17, 2018
Walking down the corridors of a senior living community could offer little to catch your attention—either a blank wall or a display of nondescript framed prints. But things are different at Pennswood Village. Home to a very art-centered population, the residents’ personal works and collections are hung in the hallways for everyone to enjoy. The…
Of Passion and Postage: Channeling Grief into Action
August 28, 2018
You may not think much about the stamps you use for mail—generally anything in stock at the post office will do. However, with the Alzheimer’s semipostal fundraising stamp, you’re not just getting postage: You’re getting a story. That’s because this stamp is the culmination of two individuals’ hard work and determination to raise funds that…
Argentum Honors Recipients of the 2018 Hero and Senior Living Community Leadership Awards
May 16, 2018
(Alexandria, Va.)—Argentum recognized four extraordinary senior living employees at the 2018 Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference in San Diego, Calif. They represent this year’s recipients of the Argentum Hero Awards, honoring employees who represent the highest levels of excellence, caring, and dedication across the industry, and the Argentum Senior Living Community Leadership Award, recognizing exemplary…