Welbi Blog

Discover engaging January activity ideas for senior living communities in our January blog! Uncover creative activities to enhance resident’s fitness.

From crafting Hanukkah paper dreidel garlands to baking homemade sufganiyot, creating beeswax Hanukkah candles, and hosting Christmas-themed "Minute to Win It" parties, we have a range of activities that cater to diverse holiday traditions and bring residents together for some festive fun!

In this blog, we will delve into three main takeaways from our recent panel webinar featuring leaders from Berwick Retirement, Origin Active Lifestyles, and Verve Senior Living, which shed light on their strategies to empower their senior living and life enrichment teams with technology!

Discover the benefits of emotional support for seniors during recovery. Find out how to provide this support for seniors in assisted living and skilled nursing.

Discover the transformative power of active aging: learn how to infuse fitness and vitality into your programming for a thriving and engaged resident community.

We're dishing out 10 activity ideas that will not only get you into the Thanksgiving spirit, but also help your residents find meaning and joy in these cherished moments!

Discover how using a resident experience platform can help while doing RAI-MDS assessments in long-term care and skilled nursing communities to improve resident care.

Boost senior living community success by maintaining family confidence. Discover key strategies for trust, transparency, and care quality.

Here are three ways that an understaffed life enrichment department impacts a skilled nursing community’s residents, brand image, and compliance.

In this blog, we explore the challenges behind preparing for family confidence meetings in senior living and how a resident experience platform such as Welbi can help you keep your brand promises.

Discover how investing in platforms like Welbi streamlines operations, enhances personalization, and elevates your life enrichment team to create unforgettable experiences for residents.

Welbi’s latest blog explores operators’ challenges in 2023 and beyond, and how business-savvy operators can get ahead of them.

Staffing shortages are a challenge that skilled nursing operators will need to approach strategically. Read on to learn about how staffing shortages impact activities and resident engagement.

The right software can play a key role in supporting life enrichment teams during a staffing shortage. Learn how a resident experience platform can help teams get the most out of their existing resources!

These frightfully delightful Halloween activity ideas for seniors will help you celebrate one of our favorite holidays with the residents in your community.

Discover 10 steps on how to be a successful recreation manager in senior living, which include creating connections, tailoring activities, and enriching lives for a vibrant community.

In this blog post, we explore some of the ways that the environment within senior living communities can positively influence the lives of older adults, backed by scientific evidence.

Discover why older adults, more than any other age group, can gain many benefits from maintaining a clean and well-cared for living space.

Environmental wellness is one of the 7 Dimensions of Wellness that contribute to the overall health and well-being of older adults. Try these environmental wellness activities with residents in your senior living community!

Here are four ways that social isolation is costly for senior living operators — and how a resident experience platform can help.

Learn about why the perception gap exists in senior living and how your community’s life enrichment program may be the key to closing the gap.

Explore the impact of loneliness and isolation on health, particularly among older adults, and learn how social connection influences our overall well-being.

In our recent panel webinar, industry leaders came together to share their predictions for what life enrichment will look like in the future of senior living. Here are the highlights from the conversation!

Long term care can face stiff penalties for non-compliance with CMS regulations. This article covers 5 of the most common F-tags and how to avoid them.

August is all about socializing. Be it barbeques or boating, if you are short on creative ideas for your community, we have you covered for your August activity planning.

In this blog, we’ll discuss how to breathe new life back into your senior living community’s fitness program using Welbi and fitness providers.

Are you looking to enhance person-centered care in your senior living community? In this blog, you’ll learn how PELI can support you in delivering personalized resident experiences.

Explore how life enrichment professionals can promote resident engagement to improve their residents’ quality of life.

Whether your community is celebrating on July 1st or the Fourth of July, we have activity ideas that will get your residents in the patriotic spirit!

In this article, we discuss the importance of using integrated software in your community. Learn about how EHRs and resident experience software pair well together.

Learn how to optimize the use of Welbi with tips and tricks from Revera's Regional Manager of Recreation, Caroline Proulx.

Resident experience software can be a powerful tool for improving the quality of care in our skilled nursing facilities. Read on to discover some of the key benefits.

This month, we're sharing activity ideas that are designed to boost cognitive wellness (one of the 7 dimensions of wellness) for residents in your senior living community.

As the Silver tsunami approaches, skilled nursing facilities need to be prepared to meet the increasing demand for senior care. Here are some steps they can take to get ready.

Learn how culinary services and life enrichment teams can work together to create a more cohesive and enjoyable experience for residents.

April Showers bring May flowers, so we have some spring-themed activities that will bring flowers, colour, and sunshine into your residents’ lives this month. Read on to learn more!

Sunridge Gardens understands the importance of forming connections with residents. By using Welbi’s insights on resident engagement, they were able to re-ignite a connection with a resident at risk of isolation.

It's important to focus on the wellness of the older adult population, especially those living in long-term care and skilled nursing facilities. Here are some ways in which Welbi can support wellness.

Developing a QAPI program can be challenging. In this blog, we’ll provide tips for avoiding the most common mistakes that facilities make when developing a QAPI program.

Managing a QAPI (Quality Assurance Performance Improvement) program is challenging, but tools like Welbi can help skilled nursing facilities to develop and implement effective QAPI initiatives.

In this blog, we discuss the benefits of QAPI programs and how senior living operators can implement them to improve resident outcomes.

Spring is on its way and what a spring it will be! This month, we have some special Easter and April-themed activities for you that will bring spring into your community!

In this blog, we explain the difference between two common ways of collecting program metrics: reports and dashboards.

March is full of fun and important holidays! It’s also when we say goodbye to winter and welcome spring. In this blog, we’re sharing some activities that bring spring into your community and give you ways to celebrate those milestone dates!

Happy New Year! For this month, we’re sharing more fun games and activities that you can do with residents in your senior living community. Try out a new card game, hold a ring toss tournament, test your memory and more!

Start 2023 off by trying some new programs with your residents, including creating community cookbooks or playlists, finding ways to cheer on hockey teams, and making the most of winter activities without braving the cold outdoors.

The holiday season is upon us! We have some holiday and non-holiday activities that take place in the month of December for you to make the most of this special time of year.

This month, we’re sharing activities based on holidays and quirky celebrations that take place in the month of November to help you get an early start on your November calendar.

For this month, we’re sharing activities based on quirky holidays and celebrations that take place in the month of October to help you get an early start on your October calendar and celebrate those fun and spooky holidays. 

Adults aged 65+ should be exercising 30 minutes per day, 5 days a week. Here are ways that you can encourage residents to attend and actively participate in your community’s exercise programs.

Older adults are one group that has much to gain from physical activity, especially for those living in long-term care. Did you know that exercise encourages intellectual, social, and emotional health?

For this month, we’re sharing activities based on quirky holidays and celebrations that take place in the month of September to help you get an early start on your September calendar and celebrate those fun holidays.

One of the biggest reasons why the workforce has not kept pace with the demand for LTC is that the industry struggles with staff turnover. Read on to uncover what causes high turnover in LTC and what needs to improve.

For this month, we’re sharing activities based on quirky holidays and celebrations that take place in the month of August to help you get an early start on your August calendar and celebrate those fun summer holidays.

The staffing shortage in long term care is a challenge that operators need to approach strategically. Find out more about what some LTC communities are doing to address turnover. 

Summer is in full swing! For this month, we’re sharing activities based on quirky holidays and celebrations that take place in the month of July, to help you get an early start on your July calendar and celebrate those fun summer holidays.

For this month we’re sharing activities based on quirky holidays and celebrations that take place in the month of June to help you get an early start on your June calendar.

Recreation Managers are continually underfunded, overworked, under appreciated, and undervalued - leading to stress, fatigue, and ultimately burnout. Check out these 5 strategies to cope with burnout.

How can your wellness program meet the ever-growing demands of boomers, the wealthiest and most active generation ever?

MDS (Minimum Dataset) is a requirement in long-term care homes, but many communities do not understand MDS well enough to use it to its full potential. In this article, we take a dive into MDS.

Sprint is upon us! For the month of April, we’re sharing Easter-themed activities, funny April Fool’s Day activities, and a unique program idea to help your residents get a kickstart on their spring cleaning. 

Loneliness kills. For seniors, loneliness can be as large of a health risk as obesity, smoking, or alcoholism.

This month, we’re hoping you and your residents have the luck of the Irish as you begin planning for St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th. Pots of gold, beautiful rainbows, leprechauns, and all the green you can handle!

In an interview with Welbi head of marketing Terrence Wang, VPs Joe Anne Holloway and Laura Scott share the strategies they’ve used at APANS to continue providing quality resident experiences during the recreation staff shortage. 

This month, we’re looking ahead to the romantic month of Valentine’s Day! Cards, celebrations, candy hearts, and all the red and pink you can imagine! Celebrate all kinds of love with your residents this holiday season.

This month, we’re celebrating the beginning of 2022 with party ideas, reminiscing, reflecting, and more! The start of a new year is a great time for you and your residents to look back and reflect and look ahead to resolutions, goals, and fresh starts.

Activity professionals see the amazing difference that recreation makes in the lives of their residents first-hand. Here are our top 10 ways that recreation benefits older adults, as told to us by our Welbi Heroes!

This month, we’re looking ahead to December with holiday activities galore! Elves, Fires, Holiday Movies, and more! What seniors living community doesn’t love getting festive during the holiday season?

A typical senior living operator with ten communities can save $2.2 million annually by reducing turnover by just 10%. Avoid the high cost and turmoil of staff turnover with these employee retention strategies.

Observe Remembrance Day or Veterans Day in your senior living community with these activities. Plus, try some fun aerobic exercises, create amazing artwork, and hold a Minute to Win It tournament with your residents!

90% of communities’ resident data is inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete. Software integration ensures your communities are compliant and modernizes your teams’ recreation data and processes.

Take your residents on a virtual adventure, celebrate Grandparent’s Day, and unwind from all the excitement with some classic games.

Whether you’re looking to improve your online presence or build it from the ground up, these tips will help you create a social media strategy that will get your community noticed.

For activity directors, dealing with change is part of the daily workload. These 5 tips will help you practice flexibility in the workplace.

It’s no secret that maintaining high occupancy keeps your communities profitable and drives the growth of your business, so here are five ways to increase occupancy.

Here are 10 activity ideas that will help your residents appreciate the natural world, get some low-impact exercise, and create gift-worthy arts and crafts!

Wellness is subjective, but you need objective data to make informed decisions to improve your resident experience. Follow these three steps!

When you’re juggling multiple roles and stacks of paperwork, it can feel like there’s just not enough time to do it all. We’ve come up with a list of 5 ways to save time!

Technology usage among seniors sky-rocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Older adults are learning to embrace new devices, but can the industry keep up with these tech-savvy seniors?

Summer is here! We've made a list of one-on-one and group activities to get your residents outside to soak up the sunshine, as well as activities to bring the outdoors to them.

With ever-changing resident needs, staying on top of changes in engagement will ensure that you protect your residents from the dangers of social isolation.

When senior living community operators used to think of wellness, the fitness centre or community pool would come to mind. These days, a wellness program is more.

From discovering the world virtually to indoor gardening, we hope these ten one-on-one activity ideas for senior communities during COVID-19 quarantines inspire you.

Discover why wellness programs should be seen as a great opportunity to improve the overall operation of your community(ies) and should be invested in accordingly.

Amazing accomplishments do not discriminate by age! These older adults serve as an example that it is never too late to accomplish your goals.

Roses are red, violets are blue, here are some activity ideas for you! As Valentine's Day approaches, let's spread the love while limiting the spread of COVID-19.

It is no secret that active aging leads to better health and longer lives and activity professionals are an integral part of providing this for members of their communities.

As we begin a new year, it is as important as ever to ensure your residents remain safe while reducing the dangers of prolonged social isolation. To help, here is another installment of our activity idea series for your community!

The Christmas season is here and we’ve got a new round of cheer! Get your community into the holiday spirit with these 10 Saint-Nicholas-themed activities for your residents this year.

The holiday season is here and we’ve got a new round of cheer! Get your community into the holiday spirit with these 10 holiday-themed activities for residents of all backgrounds.

Senior communities are still working night and day to keep their residents safe throughout these challenging COVID-19 times. We are working hard to continue providing you with ideas, programs, and activities to ensure your residents’ spirits remain high.

Within a senior living community, the faster we can identify close or high-risk contacts, the more impactful our actions are to mitigate risk.

Face masks don’t have to be plain — in fact, a well-crafted face mask can be a great statement piece and a fun activity for your residents.

The holiday season is upon us and brings with it numerous opportunities for turning typical days at your community into seasonal experiences.

As the pandemic continues, Welbi has compiled more activities you can try out during these challenging times.

Keeping the spirits high is essential right now! Here are some ideas and activities being used right now in senior communities.

Easter may be an emotional time for everyone, as families and loved ones spend time apart. Here are some holiday themed activities to connect and engage with seniors.

Here is a list of different activities you can put in place that still engage your older adults on a daily basis.

Memory loss is a common factor that affects older adults. Although there is no way to completely prevent it, there are certain factors that can help.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the senior living industry, and in doing so help to manage the upcoming demand.