Transforming Social Wellness into a More Connected Future for Older Adults
Social connection is foundational to healthy aging. LifeLoop and Argentum created the Social Wellness Hub to share research-backed insights and guidance that can help senior living leaders strengthen, measure, and scale social wellness in their communities.
Explore resources designed to connect life enrichment with health outcomes, support proactive resident wellness, and advance senior living’s role in value-based care.
Unlock Better Outcomes and Lower Costs in Senior Living
Social wellness is a core determinant of health and economic outcomes, and attention is shifting to its integration into care models, measurement frameworks and policy design.
In our joint report, The Case for Social Wellness, we explore how meaningful engagement and strong social connections can improve resident outcomes, support healthier aging, and reduce healthcare costs—reinforcing the growing importance of holistic wellness for older adults.
Assess Your Community’s Social Wellness Readiness
Is your community ready to put social wellness into practice?
Developed from findings from our joint Social Wellness report from Argentum and LifeLoop, this assessment helps you evaluate how intentionally and consistently your community supports resident connection, belonging, purpose, and meaningful engagement.
Use the checklist to:
- Assess how well teams understand and plan for social wellness
- Review how resident knowledge informs personalized engagement
- Evaluate documentation, measurement, and cross-functional follow-up
- Identify practical next steps to make social wellness more consistent, measurable, and actionable
Social Wellness Delivers Cross-sector Value for the Industry
Understanding how the impact of social wellness extends beyond senior living operators
For senior living operators
For health plans and
risk-bearing providers
For policymakers
Senior living communities are already delivering social wellness every day. The opportunity now is to quantify it, optimize it, and strategically position it within the healthcare ecosystem. Investments in people, technology, and value-based care partnerships can help scale this impact.
Health plans and risk-bearing providers must treat social wellness as a measurable, modifiable driver of health by identifying isolation risk and funding interventions that support connection. Partnerships with senior living operators can help improve outcomes, stabilize high-risk populations, and manage total cost of care.
Policymakers can elevate social wellness as a public health priority by integrating social wellness into federal and state health policy, value-based care, and social determinants of health strategies. Funding, research, shared standards, and incentives can help senior living providers scale effective interventions.
Hear from the Life Enrichment Professionals Leading the Way
Social wellness comes to life through the people who build meaningful connections every day.
Watch our Senior Living Heroes videos to hear life enrichment professionals share what inspires their work—and how they are creating more purposeful, connected experiences for residents.
Dive Into Best Practices and Senior Living Perspectives
Explore practical guidance and research-based perspectives from senior living leaders working to make social wellness more measurable, actionable, and integrated into everyday operations.
Beyond memory care:
Building dementia-inclusive communities through integrated wellness
Supporting well-being in senior living
through skilled engagement
Myth-busting resident engagement: Translating programming into evidence-backed health interventions
Argentum: Merrill Gardens selects LifeLoop to advance a hospitality-forward resident experience powered by social wellness
The Arbor Company: What Is the Link Between Social Wellness and Healthy Aging?
McKnight’s Long Term Care News: The opposite of good resident engagement? Not bad engagement, but social isolation.
