Senior Housing: The AI Gap — book cover Senior Housing: The AI Gap — companion workbook cover
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The gap isn’t technology. It’s implementation.

Senior housing faces a $322 billion AI opportunity. 4.5% of operators have actually deployed. Senior Housing: The AI Gap is the 90-day operational playbook for the boards and C-suites stuck in governance theater.

$322B market by 2034 (InsightAce Analytic, 2025)· 4.5% nursing & residential care AI adoption (JAMA Health Forum, Nov 2025)· 16 chapters· 72-page companion workbook· Now on Amazon

Written for operators. Not technologists.

The book

Senior Housing: The AI Gap

From Governance Theater to Deployment in 90 Days

16 chapters, ~49,700 words. The four governance traps. The three contract clauses no AI vendor agreement should be signed without. The LITT framework applied to AI deployment under regulatory pressure.

The companion workbook

Tools, Templates, and Vendor Intelligence for Your Governance Committee

72 pages

Vendor evaluation worksheets. 90-day deployment sprint template. Sample board resolutions. Compliance-by-default checklist. Designed to work alongside the book inside a real governance committee.

If any of this sounds familiar, this book was written for you.

“Two years later, nothing is in production, and the people doing the actual care are still drowning. That isn’t governance. That’s theater. Real governance ships.” — Ken Leatherman
Ken Leatherman

Ken Leatherman

Ken Leatherman has 30 years in insurance and risk management and has served senior housing clients since 2007. He advises skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, and in-home operators on risk and governance.

He founded Leadership in Tough Times (LITT) and Storify Studios and hosts the Leadership in Tough Times podcast.

Senior Housing: The AI Gap is available now on Amazon. The companion workbook releases shortly.

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