The most interesting artificial intelligence story in senior living right now is not happening in the care plan. It is happening in the back of the kitchen.
It reveals itself in how a community buys food, how much it prepares for a given meal, how much of that food ends up in the trash, how it staffs a dining room across a demand curve that never stays flat, and whether anyone actually knows what residents want before a quarterly survey gets around to asking.
Almost none of the AI conversation in this industry, which tends to gravitate toward falls detection, remote monitoring, and documentation tools that free up a few hours of nursing time, touches any of that.
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