Many American sports have been created because someone found a use for something that could turn an ordinary activity into a game. Basketball, for instance, was born out of taking peach baskets – originally still intact with the bottoms still in them – nailing them to a tree or post and then throwing a ball into… Read more »

A given in learning about the needs of clients we want to serve and engage to help them age in place effectively is listening to them – actually listening and not just hearing them. Hearing someone or something is passive – it is the physical act of allowing sound waves to enter our ears and… Read more »

There was a time when business cards were expected to do much more than they do today, and they were relied on to perform this valuable service. While inanimate in nature, our business cards were expected to perform as our uncompensated silent salespeople – generating interest and creating leads all by themselves, Thus, there was a serious expenditure… Read more »

Every month has at least one national, international, regional, state, or industry observance that we note because of its aging in place reference or implications. Some months have just one major notation (although there may be some lesser known ones that some people are aware of and observe), and a few have several of them. March… Read more »

As we go through life, we collect many things along the way that are important to us at the time or that we think might have to us or others in the future. Even before there were online sites for selling items that could bring in extra money, we had classified ads, flyers, and word-of-mouth… Read more »

When we meet someone that we want to help age in place in their home we may observe some things that we think might be an issue or we may learn some things in the telephone interview with them, but we must really be prepared to listen to them open up about their needs and… Read more »

Many of us are practical procrastinators. We put off doing something or taking advantage of a situation, deferring instead to do it at a later time. The only thing is, that opportunity vanishes, and we don’t get to do it at all. Take something that is on sale in a store we are in. We… Read more »

Nothing happens in business until a sale is made, but focusing solely or primarily on making the sale can be detrimental to the progress of the business -especially when aging in place solutions are involved. Aging in place solutions are unlike a typical service that is sold to a consumer. Here, there is no sales quota to… Read more »

We enjoy helping people live well in their homes as they continue to live in them and age in place. Sometimes those homes are well-suited for them, but often they are not. However, it may not take much to make them more ideal. When there is not an urgent need that demands our attention as… Read more »

We are coming up on the long-awaited college basketball playoffs where the best men’s (and in a separate series, the women’s) college basketball team is given the trophy as the National Champion for the season just completed. This is different from the major college football program where, after the season of twelve games or more, only… Read more »