Steve Gurney, Founder of Positive Aging Community
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome Mr. Steve Gurney as a guest to the show to discuss tips and guidance for when it is time to shop for senior living options.
Steve Gurney founded Retirement Living SourceBook in 1990. Drawing from the experience of observing his family caring for Steve’s aging grandfather, he created a comprehensive publication to help others in the same situation. Over the next few years Steve expanded the publication to three regional editions, DC metro, State of Maryland, and the Philadelphia region. Steve has worked closely with nearly every regional and national organization on aging to help maximize their exposure and helping find solutions to their challenges.
In 1998, Mr. Gurney sold his company to The Washington Post where he served as General Manager of Sourcebook and the Senior Living Solutions Division. In 2019, Mr. Gurney acquired the resource back, and has re-branded as Positive Aging Community adding a new design and content, distribution partners, podcasts, and a robust schedule of live and interactive discussions with thought-leaders on a wide variety of topics.
In addition, Mr. Gurney founded ProAging Network meetings and leads the DC Senior Resource Group important resources for senior-serving professionals.
Mr. Gurney serves or has served on the board of directors for the Grass Roots Organization for the Well-Being of Seniors (GROWS), Alzheimer’s Association, Interages, Business and Aging Task Force, Virginia Intergenerational Task Force, and the Beacon Institute. Steve has served on countless committees and provided guidance to help organizations and businesses better serve the senior population. Mr. Gurney has received awards and recognition from the Seabury Resources for Aging, Maryland Assisted Living Association, the Senior Marketing Institute and other notable organizations. Steve is a regular speaker at local, regional and national events and has been featured in regional and national publications, electronic and broadcast media.
About The Positive Aging Community:
The Positive Aging Community supports that the right solutions and connections can help people live more purposeful lives—no matter their age or ability. For more than 33 years, we have fostered a community of older adults, families and influential professionals that helps make aging choices easier and more accessible. The Positive Aging Community communicates and connects with the community via print or online, searchable databases, live online discussions, or recorded podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions |
| 0:06.7 | on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:29.6 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:30.6 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:35.6 | here at all home care matters, something that |
| 0:37.9 | will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome the founder of positive aging |
| 0:43.3 | communities, Mr. Steve Gurney. Welcome, Steve. How are you today? Great. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:51.6 | Our pleasure. Our pleasure. So Steve, let's talk a little bit about your background |
| 0:55.4 | and what led to the creation of the positive aging community. All right. Well, I have been doing |
| 1:02.9 | this for about 33 years. And what led to this was when I was in college, my grandfather needed |
| 1:09.8 | a nursing home. and I observed firsthand |
| 1:12.4 | how my family had to go through that challenging life chapter. And it struck me as odd that there |
| 1:24.0 | wasn't a guide out there to objectively help my family understand all the different |
| 1:30.3 | options that were available to them. So when I graduated from college, I put together a guide. I didn't |
| 1:36.6 | think I was going to be starting a business. I just wanted something on my resume to help me get a |
| 1:44.0 | better job, first job out of college. But here I am, |
| 1:47.6 | 33 years later, and we're still publishing the printed guide, but we also have a variety of |
| 1:55.2 | digital offerings as well. Wonderful. So I understand, though, you were involved in a project where you actually lived in |
| 2:02.4 | five different senior living communities when you were in your early 40s. Yeah, this is |
| 2:07.6 | what inspired that? Well, so here I was. I got into this in my early 20s and fast forward 20 plus years later and I'm in 43 years old and I'm |
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