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Early findings from a University of Arizona study on Facebook’s benefits for seniors showed promising results. According to this article on Futurity.org, seniors who had learned how to use Facebook “performed about 25 percent better on tasks designed to ...

Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon: every day, the list of social media options grows exponentially, along with each network’s number of daily users.

Consequently, businesses of all sizes and scopes have, at the very least, a Facebook page and ...

“Ignore Social Media...At Your Peril” are the strong words from the title of a recent SeniorHousingNews.com post.

The warning comes based on new stats from the Pew Research Center, which indicates that 53% of seniors (those over the age ...

Like this status update, friend request sent, retweet this post, share this photo. We’re living in a social media world, and that means there are new ways to search for senior care options.

Finding senior living can a very ...

In an effort to encourage emergency preparedness among healthcare providers in a number of settings (including senior care facilities), the federal government is sponsoring a contest, Facebook-style.

McKnight’s Long Term Care News & Assisted Living reports on the Office ...

Forget questions of the afterlife. What happens to your Facebook profile after you die?

The answer is embedded in Katie Baker’s fascinating piece “Grieving in the Facebook Age” (from The Good Men Project magazine):
[Says] Max Kelly, Facebook’s head of security, “We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it’s important when ...

Jeopardy bills itself as “everyone’s favorite quiz show,” but this week, SeniorsforLiving.com will give them a run for their money.

While that may be overstating things a bit, we will be channeling our inner-Alex Trebek as we host a two-week-long trivia contest on our Facebook page. Starting today, Monday, October 4th, we’ll ask a trivia question each morning at 8:00am, ET. Leave your answer in the comment ...

If you follow SeniorsforLiving on Twitter, or read our blog often, you know how much we value the relationships we've made on the social networks. Thanks to the people we're "following" and those that we're starting to "Fan" or "Friend" on Facebook.com, we're discovering new sources of important information about senior care and housing, caregiving and home care, boomer issues, and more.

It's enabled us to form synergies with ...

I have a Facebook account and I am thoroughly enjoying catching up with people from all over. My teenager even voluntarily friended me, however at 44, I suppose I'm still considered "old" in that world. But, that's really OK because the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is between 35 and 54 , so I'm actually part of the "in" crowd for a change.

Younger folks may feel that we've ruined Facebook for them, but ...