Rethink Aging

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Rethink Aging.

Nexus Insights is a clearinghouse for new ideas on aging, aging services, and models of care and community for older American adults.

Disrupt or Be Disrupted.

Aging impacts many industries. Healthcare, hospitality, multifamily, retail, transportation, technology, and senior living are experiencing major disruptions. Leaders must create experiences and operating models that align with rapidly shifting market conditions, while satisfying the demands of a new generation of consumers.

Now is the time to adapt, disrupt traditional models, or become the disrupted.

“It’s more important than ever to be thinking about how to deal with disruption amidst what could be the creative destruction of some traditional operating models in seniors housing and care.”

– Robert Kramer, Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor, NIC, Founder, Nexus Insights

Drive transformation.

Nexus Insights is not a special interest, lobbying firm, or consultancy. Our mission, under the guidance of our diverse and highly distinguished board of Fellows, is to provide unvarnished insights, provoke discussion, and encourage civil debate via speaking engagements, webinars, podcasts, blog posts, articles, and other published works.

Our goal is to drive transformation, by revealing opportunities to improve the experience of aging, both in America and abroad.

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“Nursing homes are like public schools. There are good ones. There are bad ones. Overall it’s a hairy national mess dishes up at a state level that needs fixing.“

– Jacquelyn Kung

“The definition of retirement is a flexible and personal thing. Most boomers want to stay vital and useful, and that might be anything from continuing a law practice to being the ultimate grandparent to serving on city council to photographing the world. The word itself is archaic and needs to be retired.“

– Sara Zeff Geber, Ph.D.

“Unless return expectations change, real estate is an unsustainable capital source for the senior care system of the future.”

– Anne Tumlinson

“New question: Should I fear growing old? This is one of the misconceptions of our times: research has proven globally that the happiest people are those 70 years of age and older. The ‘U-Shaped Happiness’ curve reveals that, despite marketing messages of eternal youth, for many our later years are, indeed, golden years.”

– Ryan Frederick

“The future of senior living isn’t customer service and carefree lifestyles, it’s true communities focused on citizenship, purpose, growth and belonging.”

– Jill Vitale-Aussem

“COVID poured gasoline on the fire of social isolation.”

– Bill Thomas

“Though COVID-19 has given the industry a black eye, the industry is also presented with a unique opportunity to recover its reputation, reframe its aspirations, and offer hope on a wider scale. If it fails to seize this opportunity, senior living will be viewed by Boomers and others as ‘senior dying’- a place to be avoided at all costs.”

– Bob Kramer

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