International Council on Active Aging

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Management and operations

By becoming an ICAA member, your company gains access to an information that addresses every element of the active aging business. To learn more about becoming a member of the ICAA, please click here.

Customer service (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Breaking through communication barriers
  • How to create a customer-focused team
  • Loyalty is created through C.A.R.I.N.G. service
  • 10 things never to say on a business call
  • 10 ways to build customer loyalty
  • The eight sins of customer service
  • View your facility through the eyes of your consumer
  • Why customers get angry even when you're nice
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Leadership (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Don’t skimp on training
  • Earn respect to achieve success
  • Emotional intelligence at work
  • Healthy employees=healthy care: collaborating to create a well community
  • Hiring the right people skills
  • How to be an extraordinary leader
  • Lunacy in the lap lane
  • Soapbox: Managing change
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Management (To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Age-friendly facilities: 99 questions to assess your competition
  • Age-friendly facility checklist
  • Are you prepared for an emergency?
  • Creating age-friendly wellness centers
  • Creating an accessible fitness or wellness center
  • Financing your wellness initiative
  • Get organized to save time and decrease stress
  • Getting buy-in for wellness
  • Guest comment: Inclusive fitness means more than accessible bathrooms
  • Know your competitors
  • Launch your planning cycle for Active Aging Week 2007
  • Listen to stake holders before initiating change
  • Re-creating ‘the backyard’ in senior communities
  • Should your facility have an AED?
  • Through a lender’s eye: how financial institutions evaluate you
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Trends(To view more ICAA articles, click here)

  • Adventure travel: an overview
  • Always independent, never alone: serving the needs of gay and lesbian elders
  • Changing minds for the better
  • ‘Green’ goes mainstream: environment-friendly retirement housing on the rise
  • ICAA chooses strategic directions to address industry news
  • Increasing physical activity participation among 50-plus adults: a new approach
  • Intergenerational programs promote active aging
  • Leader of the pack
  • Nations on the move international perspectives on active aging
  • Positive psychology: a new way to support wellness in older adults?
  • Putting prevention into practice
  • Recreation and the age wave
  • Soapbox: The Boomers at 60: how the aging of a generation is changing industries
  • The spa experience: a snapshot of older adults and the spa industry
  • University-based retirement communities on the rise
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