LeadingAge Awards Winners for 2022: Dedicated to Service

The LeadingAge Awards recipients for 2022 represent the qualities of leadership, innovation, compassion, and dedication to mission of LeadingAge members. This year’s winners will be honored at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting + EXPO in Denver, CO, Oct. 16-19. Award of Honor James Bernardo, president and CEO of Presbyterian Senior Living, will receive […]

More Rides and Lower Costs with a Pragmatic Partnership

Partnerships help nonprofit aging-services providers stretch resources and add or maintain services that would otherwise be unsustainable. One affordable housing provider has forged a partnership that enabled a practical replacement for a resident transportation program that had been shut down during the worst of the pandemic. Episcopal Place, a LeadingAge […]

A Free Food Pantry to Support Residents and Staff

A “temporary” program launched during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a popular institution at LeadingAge member Glencroft Center for Modern Aging, a CCRC in Glendale, AZ. The Glencroft Food Pantry, open twice monthly, provides free fruits and vegetables, pantry staples, and paper products to residents and […]

Giving Voice and Honor to Older Adults

The genesis of the Wisdom & Stories Initiative was a resident’s soulful reflection: “All I have are my memories and now I am losing those.” Josephine Caring Community, Stanwood, WA, is a nonprofit, full-continuum provider affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The organization responded to this grief, […]

A Free Food Pantry to Support Residents and Staff

A “temporary” program launched during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a popular institution at LeadingAge member Glencroft Center for Modern Aging, a CCRC in Glendale, AZ. The Glencroft Food Pantry, open twice monthly, providesfree fruits and vegetables, pantry staples, and paper products to residents and staff. […]