Uniquely designed for senior readers, with their priorities placed uppermost in story selection.

Regular features in the morning edition

30 to 50 stories by 6 AM Eastern, seven days a week, with large type you can adjust. Residents read online or get the morning email, so there’s no daily staff task.

• 3 To Know

  The three stories to know today, in about five minutes. Also a short video with large captions and a 3-minute audio file for the lobby screen.

• Ring a Bell?

  A memory from this day in years past, near the top of the edition, with a one-tap poll: do you remember it?

• Spot the Red Flag

  A scam-spotting challenge every Wednesday. A practice scam message, clearly marked as an example. Residents tap the part that gives it away and learn what to do instead.

• Short Story of the Week

  A classic short story in each Sunday edition, in large print. Residents read it first, then gather to talk at Coffee and a Story.

• Tech Tips

  A simple how-to for phones, tablets and computers every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with a printable poster.

• Conversation Starter

  One good question drawn from 3 To Know, with a button to print it for the table.

A typical week on your calendar

Run one gathering a week or all of them. We send the materials; you choose what to run and when.

The days shown are when each program is planned. You can hold any gathering on the day that suits your calendar.

Every program comes ready to present

Each program includes artwork for showing it on screens, such as your community app and the lobby TV, and as a printed poster. Fill in the day, time and room, and it’s ready. That makes every event easy to add and easy to plan around.

Real samples from Coffee and a Topic: The Movies Learn to Talk, about The Jazz Singer (1927), for the week of October 20. Each Coffee set also includes a short video, a PowerPoint file and a calendar file.

What arrives, ready to use

Art Projects in the Library

A growing collection of Art Projects, with new ones added each week, including a set designed for memory care.

Every project has step-by-step instructions and a supplies list, with the cost per resident.

The memory care set comes with a guide for the person leading the session. Examples: Yarn-Wrapped Hearts and Birds (about $0.20 per resident) and Coffee-Filter Flowers.

Browse the Library free → Downloads come with a subscription.

What it asks of you

• About 15 minutes per event to prepare and host, including printing the Table Talk cards.
• No expertise needed. Hosts can read the guide aloud word for word, and a resident can lead a gathering.
• Start small. Begin with the daily briefing and one weekly gathering.
• No resident list to share. Residents sign themselves up with a QR code and their own email.

Sample downloads

Real materials, free to download. No sign-up needed.

• Host guide (PDF) Coffee and a Country: China
• Reader set (PDF) Coffee and a Country: China
• Poster (PDF) Coffee and a Country: China
• Table Talk cards (PDF) Four weekly cards, weeks of October 5 to October 26

Written for your residents, and checked

• Every story passes an independent fact-check or our editor’s approval before it runs, and anything flagged red stays out unless it is fixed and re-checked, or the editor approves it. Every story lists its sources, with links to the originals.
• Our job is to inform, not to tell readers what to think. No partisan spin.
• Our editor, William Kohn, lives in a continuing care retirement community (CCRC). He brings both the experience and the knowledge to understand what our senior readers need.
• No ads in anything we deliver, and we never sell residents’ information.

How we check every story →

What it costs

• $75 a month covers up to 75 independent-living units.
• Larger communities pay a little more per unit, and never more than $399 a month.
• Counted by independent-living units.
• Sales-office credit: when your sales office joins, half of what sales pays (50%) is credited toward your program. If sales pays $150 a month, $75 a month comes off your bill.
• Pay yearly and save 15%. Residents never pay.

Listening is included. Every story in the daily edition can be read aloud on the website, at no extra charge with the Community Program.

Find your exact price →

Bring your sales team in

People considering a move to your community get the daily briefing free for 365 days, as your community’s gift. Your sales office pays for the Sales Plan after the free trial: 30 days for the Sales Plan, or 60 days in the Founding Sales Partner campaign; after a year, you choose to take each prospect off or keep them on longer.

Because prospects get the briefing every day too, the program can be paid from your sales and marketing budget as well as your lifestyle budget. Sales often has room in its budget when lifestyle doesn’t.

Here’s a note you can send your sales or marketing director. Change anything you like.

Hi [name],

I'm looking at The World Desk Community Edition for our life-enrichment calendar. It's a daily briefing uniquely designed for senior readers, plus ready-made weekly conversation programs with host guides, resident sheets and posters.

Part of it is for your team. People considering a move here can get the daily briefing free for 365 days as our community's gift. That puts our community's name in front of prospects every morning.

Because it helps sales as well as lifestyle, would you consider sharing the cost? It's $75 a month for up to 75 units, counted by independent-living units, and never more than $399 a month. Half of what the sales office pays is credited toward our program. Residents pay nothing.

There's a page for sales teams: https://theworlddesk.news/community/for-sales
Sample Week, no sign-up: https://theworlddesk.news/community/sample-week

Could we find 15 minutes to talk about it?

Thanks,
[your name]

What it gives your sales team →

How to start

Start with a free month for your team. Nothing is sent to residents during the staff trial month, and nothing turns into a paid plan unless the community agrees in writing.

Prefer to talk? Call (645) 654-0684 or email sales@theworlddesk.news.