Senior Play List, Inc.

Specialties

Senior​playlist​.com is a website directory of local entertainers and those who provide activities for seniors that is promoted to the Activity Directors of local senior care or residential facilities, who often pay people to conduct 1-hr.-long activities with their residents and provide other forms of entertainment. It is a free calendar-​planning resource for Activity Directors who use it to find new local arts/​crafts workshop leaders, exercise/​yoga instructors, speakers, skill demonstrators, singers, musicians, dancers, variety acts, magicians, and others. List members gain exposure and active promotion of the site to a paying market for their talent and a means by which they can perfect their skills by sharing them with an appreciative audience.

History

Established in 2012.

Construction of the site began in August 2011. Although Senior Play List, Inc. was incorporated in Dec. 2011, www​.senior​playlist​.com itself did not open for populating in its first market, the ‘Triangle’ area of NC, until January 20, 2012. After a ‘soft launch’ to a few local Activity Directors about a week later, the site fully debuted to all Activity Directors in the Triangle on February 20 with approximately 20 list members. Since then, it has grown steadily in number, both in terms of list members and in the number of Activity Directors who use it as a valuable resource for fresh local talent. In April the site opened for populating nationwide, although it was not until July, when a new Home page and a modified registration procedure for list members in new markets was installed, that it started to attract the attention of Activity Directors in various states nationwide and efforts to recruit list members using broadscale platforms spanning multiple states began to take off.

Meet the Business Owner

Karen R.

Business Owner

Karen became an Activities Professional in 2005, working for 4 ½ years, total, at two Raleigh nursing homes. From 1997 – 1999, she’d also provided an activity to 4 senior facilities, part-​time. Years later, as a regular source of additional income, she began doing poetry readings, eventually at nine facilities. In April 2010, a debilitating injury from a pet-​sitting assignment (which she also did part-​time) left her incapable of resuming her role in the nursing home, and became the catalyst to a new career. While searching for a way to replace her income, she added other programs besides poetry readings and her client list grew. She’d felt drawn to create a website linking local talent with senior facilities for 3 years. Now, she perceived that vision with new clarity, realizing that her experience on both sides of the equation made her ideally suited to serve as the conduit between the two. In a classic case of turning lemons into lemonade, ‘the rest’, as they say, ‘is history’.