RE-IMAGINE
Re-Imagine Senior Living
consulting
Creative Senior Solutions is a twenty-first century Senior Living Management and Consulting company, engaged in all aspects of the senior living industry.
We Specialize In
Development
Management
Residents
Individuals at Home
We have successfully developed over fifteen senior living buildings and can help you get your building finished, licensed and up and running. That’s what we do.
Today’s workforce of Gen Z’s are different. They want and need different things. There is also new software available in every single department and discipline. CSS can help you start up your business or transform your existing business so have a stable and fulfilled staff working with up-to-date tools with which to grow your business.
The Baby Boomers have arrived. It’s a whole new ballgame. It’s not just bingo, anymore. CSS specializes in understanding not just new management styles for Baby Boomers, but in creating innovative life enrichment and activity programs which the Boomers will want and will differentiate you from your competition.
We can keep you home if you’d like. Or create a unique space for you and your friends. See our new Boutique Senior Living options.
what’s new
for companies

We can help you develop your building, get it finished, licensed, and up and running. That’s what we do.

We can help you manage your Company in a new way with the Gen X workforce and software developments.

We can upgrade your Life Enrichment department with exciting new programs for the Baby Boomers.
what’s new
for people
Check out our new, Boutique Senior Living Program, where you can create your own senior living space for one, two, four or more people! You now have an alternative to just staying home and receiving home health care, or moving an assisted living community. Create your own senior living experience with your friends or family!
Creative Senior Solutions is a twenty-first century senior living consulting, management, development and media company. We can help you create the future, because we know the past, live in the present world of senior living, and create new experiences for the future. We’ve been doing it for thirty years.
RE-CREATE
As the Baby Boomers start to enter into their senior living phase of life
senior living companies are going to have to re-imagine themselves to stay competitive in today and tomorrow’s senior living world.
plan & build
Expert guidance utilizing thirty years of success in the senior living industry
new companies will have to understand the senior living industry and its history to create new models and approaches. We use our experience to help guide new and growing businesses to thrive with innovative senior living models.
innovate
Individuals and friends can now create their own enjoyable plan
Individuals and friends can now create their own, small, senior living community. We can guide you to make your own senior living ideas come true for you, and your friends or family, with our Boutique Senior Living Program.
We draw on our thirty years of experience as an owner, operator, developer and thought leader in the fields of assisted living, memory care and nursing communities in over fifteen different communities – to create the situation exactly right for you.

Explore traditional senior living
We help you to examine what is best for you – whether it is staying at home, moving to independent living, assisted living, memory care, or a nursing care setting.
We are experts in this field and can guide you to the exact place that is right for you.

Create your own living situation
There are several ways to structure your ideal living arrangement if you wish to stay in your home, such as: bringing another person into your home to share expenses; move together with a few friends; bring a home care provider to live in; or something else – we can help you make your dream happen!
Creative Senior Solutions has created:
University-based Senior Communities
We created and developed one of the first University based, life-long learning programs for assisted living called, University Living.
Physician-owned Community
We created a unique, physician-owned assisted living and memory care community called, My Doctor’s INN.
Rural Community Assisted Living
We created an assisted living which looked like a farm-house in a rural community with farm-like activities for seniors to enjoy.
Unique Memory Care Communities
We have created multi-level memory care communities with “lodges” for early and moderate and severe memory care
Newly Built Properties
We have built several properties from the ground up, from $2 million to $18 million dollar projects.
Renovated (Value-added) Properties
We have renovated multiple existing senior living and foreclosed properties into beautiful properties for half the price of a new build.
MOTIVATE
Training and Senior Life Enrichment Content
Creative Senior Solutions President Dean Solden is a unique individual, in that he is both a professional senior living owner, operator, developer, thought leader and a professional musician and entertainer, having performed around the world. He has combined these two passions to create a most unique musical keynote and motivational speaker presentation program. He can help motivate your company or organization to propel yourself in the new and coming world we live in.
Dynamic musical and educational program
Creative Senior Solutions founder, Dean Solden blends his expertise in senior living with his life-long career as a professional musician, composer and producer to create a motivational presentation that will not only get your company thinking in new ways, but will be entertaining as well.
New strategies for a changing world
With the senior world changing at an unprecedented rate, especially with Baby Boomers now starting to come into the senior living space, as well as us all living in a post-Covid/AI world, businesses will have to change to stay relevant. CSS can help your company not only enter the senior living space in an impactful way, but can immediately put you ahead of the curve to out-distance yourself from your competitors. With innovations in every discipline associated with senior living, such as building design, interior design, software programming, CSS offers expertise and experience as operations systems for Personal Care, Life Enrichment and the Dining Experience.
FOR YOUR RESIDENTS
Award-Winning 12-week Life Enrichment programs for Seniors
(Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care
Old Time Rock and Rollers!
Band and Choir Program:
CSS specialized in a unique and inspiring band program called, “Old Time Rock and Rollers!” In this 12-week program, residents will sing and play the music of the 50’s and 60’s and 70’s play in a small band format. This may be from just singing along, to actually playing an instrument and forming a “band.”
(Band members must have a working knowledge of their instrument.) Baby Boomers love rock and roll, and in this program, people will be active participants in the program, not just passive observers, an important new element in what Baby Boomers will want in this new era of senior living. And they can play and sing at whatever level the people are at, from beginners to amateurs, semi-professionals to professionals. It will culminate in a “gig,” a performance for residents, family and friends, and be an important internal marketing event which will promote tremendous good-will in your community.
Add-ons to this program include:
o Videos for your Community, to be distributed on social media
o Be the Senior Entertainment Hub of your Community, by broadcasting rehearsals and performances to the outside community, especially for those receiving home health care in their own homes. People will be watching the programming in your senior community! This will be an important marketing tool in cultivating new residents.
Amazing Grace Choir: (for assisted living & memory care)
This is a chance for your residents to be in a real choir – with no prior experience necessary, only the desire to sing.
Most people living in assisted living and memory care communities end up being passive listeners and observers in most activities. In this unique program, CSS doesn’t just have the people in the community listen to the music, we help them become active participants. No matter what level of musical skill, from beginners to professionals, and no matter what level of physical or cognitive limitations people may have, CSS can get your residents performing in a choir that will fill their souls with love and music.
Songs will be based on their age and generations, with standard patriotic and spiritual songs that everyone knows, such as Amazing Grace, America the Beautiful, and old Rock and Roll songs like Johnny be Goode. The program is based on the documentary of CSS entitled “The Spirit of Caring,” and the award-winning music video produced by CSS entitled, “Don’t Define Me, Just Remind Me.”
This 12-week program will culminate in a performance for residents, staff, families and friends, which will promote tremendous good will in your community, but more importantly, be an important new element in your resident’s life.
Professional Theater
(for Independent Living)
Professional “Musical Theater” performances. These are one-man or full band professional performances, geared toward older audiences, with appropriate messages of living, loving and learning.
o “That’s Just the Way Life Goes.” A poignant and entertaining hour about the mysteries of love, loss and learning through melodic songs of all styes.
o “Four Special Women” – a personal journey of four special women in someone’s life, their sister, their mother, their daughter, their wife.
Professional Edu-tainment (for Independent Living)
Professional Educational Performance, which explains the histories of jazz and classical music, and the similarities between their musical evolution, in a lecture/performances that are both entertaining and educational.
o “From Mozart to Miles”
o “Understanding the Blues”
FOR YOUR staff
Award-Winning 12-week Life Enrichment programs for Seniors
Education and Training
(IL, AL, MC)
Life Enrichment Education: Mr. Solden offers a half-day or full -day seminar for your Life Enrichment Staff, entitled, “The Vibrant Life Way.” It will be a motivational day for your Life Enrichment staff, giving them dozens of new ideas, but also specific techniques which can permanently enhance your Life Enrichment Program.
o Half day Seminar
o Full Day Seminar
The Carefriend Approach:
If your nursing staff and Caregivers are in need of a shot in the arm to increase morale and equally importantly increase the Quality of Life of your residents, CSS offers, “The Carefriend Approach.” This is a culture-change concept for everyone in the organization, especially caregivers. It will provide them with a new mindset as they care for seniors, which is based on mutual respect, dignity, a new way to actually provide care for your clients, and a new understanding of what quality of life is really about.
o Half day Seminar
o Full Day Seminar
o 12-week culture change program.
Long Term Quality of Life Culture Change:
Long Term Quality of Life Culture Change: If your organization is serious about changing its culture for the Baby Boomers and desires to clearly upgrade the quality of life in your senior community, CSS can be contracted for an extended period to help implement the changes discussed in both The Vibrant Life Way and The Carefriend Approach.
o 12 Week Program Life Enrichment Culture Change Program
o 12 Week Quality of Life Culture Change Program
keynote
Addresses
Dean Solden, President of Creative Senior Solutions, offers a highly entertaining keynote address for your healthcare organization’s annual conference or seminar. Dean mixes in his two passions, being a professional entertainer as well as being a thirty-year senior living executive, to produce an unforgettable, eye-opening hour at your meeting or seminar with his important senior living messages. Among a variety of topics, Mr. Solden will address culture change issues necessary for senior living communities to compete for the new Baby Boom generation of seniors. He will discuss his Quality-of-Care philosophy entitled, “The Carefriend Approach,” and his Quality- of-Life philosophy entitled, “The Vibrant Way.” He will also showcase and discuss his award-winning Memory Care Choir and music video, entitled, “Don’t Define Me, Just Remind Me, as well as the mini documentary which was produced about his work, entitled, “The Spirit of Caring.”
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