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Adding Life to Years: Senior Living Providers Reorient Operations Around Healthspan

Oct 30, 2026
Lauren Salonek
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Senior living providers are rethinking wellness programs around healthspan, a practice often referred to as “adding life to your years, not years to your life.”

Senior Housing News looked at this shift in a recent article. Operators, the story reports, “are creating new resident assessment protocols, more personalized lifestyle programming, coordinated healthcare services and other new efforts to connect older adults to one another and help them feel like they belong.”

Lifespark was one of the operators featured, for its COMPLETE Senior Living model. COMPLETE Senior Living brings together senior living, activities and wellness programming (SPARK Growth & Wellness), medical services (Lifespark Medical Group), and hospice.

Joel Theisen, BSN, RN, Lifespark Founder and CEO, told Senior Housing News that moving wellness toward healthspan and longevity means taking bold changes with engagement. This past summer, that meant Camp Joy. Lifespark took 58 assisted living and memory care residents to an outdoor retreat for archery, canoeing, and ziplining.

Read On for the full story at Senior Housing News…

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