The Senior List

October 3, 2011 by Amie 3 Comments

The Senior List® is a ratings and review portal for everything senior related. Visit our Nationwide Senior Care Directory for ratings & reviews on senior services. If you’re looking for Product Reviews (on medical alert systems, or senior-friendly cell phones) you’ll find them here. Our blog contains wonderful information on caregiving, health matters, technology, and more.

Your participation is requested… Your comments, ratings and reviews will bring this site to life, and provide even more value to those seeking unbiased eldercare information. Our goal at The Senior List is to help consumers navigate through confusing waters, but we also want to start a discussion! Let’s face it, the search for quality eldercare information can be a real struggle. When you’re looking for local senior services, or product reviews you just want good quality (unbiased) information. We hope you’ll find The Senior List to be a valuable resource. Please share us with your friends!

At The Senior List, we try to bring consumers together with the best local service providers. This produces a win-win scenario for the benefit of everyone involved. You can help us deliver valuable consumer feedback by adding a rating or review (of a business you’re familiar with). Word of mouth… It works!! Visit our Eldercare Directory Today

Rating: 9.5/10 (2 votes cast)

Filed Under: The Senior List Tagged With: Eldercare, Senior Care Directory

2011 Will Be The Year Of The Baby Boomer – KA BOOM!

January 2, 2011 by Chris Leave a Comment

Happy New Year One And All

2011 is finally upon us, and we’ve now entered a new era that will be defined by aging “individuals” with the following characteristics; Money, Time, Affluence and Influence. 2011 will go down as the year of the Baby Boomer. The countdown has been going on for many years by forecasters, marketers, and by boomers themselves. This year, the oldest of the baby boomers will turn 65, the year many mark as “retirement age”. 79 million baby boomers will turn 65 every day for the next 19 years (it’s hard to imagine).

Baby Boomers are defined by their individualism, by their music, by civil rights advances, and by simultaneously fighting in AND protesting the Vietnam war. This era welcomed a culture-shift that opened the doors to greater “enlightenment”, “free love”, and “flower power”. Make no mistake, the wants, needs and desires of baby boomers will drive entire markets. Technologies that enable boomers to “Age in Place” (like telehealth, medical alert devices, home monitoring, and home modification services) will be gobbled up for the foreseeable future.

Great questions are looming however… Questions like; Will Medicare and Social Security be there for me when I need it? Who will help care for me when I can no longer care for myself? (and) Do I dare ask for a “senior coffee” at McDonalds? These questions and many more will take on greater meaning as more and more boomers continue to age.

The significance of the baby boomer countdown (to age 65) really hit me when I glanced at the Oregonian on January 1st, 2011 and read the (front page) headlines which read: “Welcome, baby boomers, to senior status”, “State last in elder advocates”, and “Magazine pioneer Anderegg dies at 70″. Seems there’s more to age than wine or cheese. There is power in numbers, and this year’s magic number is… 65.

If you enjoyed this article feel free to check out a number of other posts about boomer and senior issues including; Quality Neighboors Make The Best Soup (caregiving and the importance of good neighboors), and Medical Alert Systems – The Top 10 Questions You Should Ask Before Buying (on Medical Alert Systems, or PERS).

The Senior List is focused on Ratings and Reviews for Senior Services. If you’d like to recommend a local eldercare provider, please visit The Senior List Eldercare Directory.

Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Filed Under: Baby Boomers, Odds & Ends, The Senior List Tagged With: Baby Boomers

Senior List Recognized By Leading Boomer Bloggers

December 17, 2010 by Chris Leave a Comment

The Senior List was very pleased to be recognized in the last few days by 2 leading “boomer” bloggers. First, on December 12 Marilynn Mobley (a PR executive with Edelman) wrote a wonderful blog post entitled “Resources boomers can use to help elderly parents: gives that keep on giving“. Her post focused on some great resources including tips for finding an elder law attorney, resources to help get your parent’s paperwork in order (the right way), and a great resource for Medicare recipients. In addition to the other super resources, she also named The Senior List as a resource for locating local senior care services. Her comments read;

“Those of us who don’t live near our elderly parents are often looking for an easy way to find service for them, whether it’s skilled nursing, transportation to a doctor’s appointment, or even just someone to check in on them. Try The Senior List, I’ve been watching this site grow over the past two years and find that they do a great job of keeping their resources up to date.” -Marilynn Mobley

Thanks for watching us Marilynn! We’ll continue to improve with the participation of consumers AND the provider communities that want to let their voices be heard.

A few days earlier we also very pleased to be recognized by Laurie Orlov, founder of Aging In Place Technology Watch, and a leading industry analyst. Laurie wrote a compelling piece called “Senior housing should lead with tech-enabled service to drive costs down“. This post focuses on the growing cost (and transparency) of Assisted Living here in the U.S. Hint for us all… Better save our pennies! This article is a good read, and I highly encourage you to check it out. She recommended utilizing The Senior List (and 2 other outstanding sites) to help bridge this transparency gap;

“Don’t we all want families to feel good about the care and recommend it to friends or online? What executives don’t want — but I strongly encourage — is for customers to post reviews at The Senior List or OurParents.com, or even Yelp.” -Laurie Orlov

To answer Laurie’s question… Yes we do! That’s exactly why we set out to create The Senior List.com. The Senior List is focused on consumer ratings and reviews for senior services. We also believe that being transparent can be a great marketing advantage to assisted living providers, and all other senior-care providers. Customer loyalty includes a number of attributes, the greatest of which is TRUST. When a customer trusts you (and your brand) they tell their friends. This is why our company tag line reads… Word of Mouth… It Works!

Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Filed Under: Baby Boomers, The Senior List Tagged With: Baby Boomers

The Senior List Celebrates Social Media With Giveaways

September 18, 2010 by Chris Leave a Comment

This week The Senior List is celebrating social media (and the best eldercare providers on the planet)! The Senior List Eldercare Directory engages the best senior-care providers by providing a platform that focuses on consumer ratings and reviews. This week, The Senior List is giving away 10 Showcase Listings to senior-care providers that join our Facebook Fan Page. The Showcase Listings will run through the remainder of this year, and expire on Dec. 31, 2010. If you’re a senior-care provider, all you have to do is add yourself to The Senior List on Facebook and introduce yourself and/or your company.

At noon on Friday (PST), September 24th we’ll select 10 eldercare providers (at random) from our Facebook Fan Page. Be sure to introduce yourself, as only those providers with a shout-out will be considered eligible. (If you’re already on our Facebook page, don’t worry… Just introduce yourself and/or your company and you’re eligible.) We’ll place all of our eligible entrants into a hat, and ask co-founder Amie Clark to pluck out 10 lucky winners. Our Showcase Listings are the best in the business. They include premium positioning, photo gallery, rich description, video embed, direct contact form, coupon/promotions, and more… As a provider on The Senior List, you can even monitor your business listing’s performance with our “provider dashboard” tool. This dashboard allows providers to track impressions, clicks, etc. You can read about all of our listing options here on our Advertising Options page.

We’ll announce the lucky winners Friday, September 24th at 12:15pm (PST). The announcement will be made live right here on The Senior List Blog. We’ll follow this up an hour later by announcing the results on our Facebook Page, on Twitter (@seniorlist), AND on LinkedIn. Best of luck, and see you around!