Senior care service goes beyond transportation and chores. For elders, every day tasks, such as general house maintenance or getting to-and-from...
Senior Living
We Need to Talk
Important conversations about aging. Adult children between the ages of 30 and 50 can find it daunting to navigate the conversation minefield that...
Home Sweet Home
The Glen at Valley Creek provides fixed-income seniors in Woodbury with a safe, affordable and comfortable home. Providing comfortable housing for...
A Sense of Home
Home is where we record all things wonderful throughout our lives. A home serves as a great vehicle for building equity. Though you do not need to...
Living Well
With generosity and courtesy comes peaceful living. It is not possible to eliminate every source of tension and disagreement in our lives. While in...
How Woodbury Community Members Connect During the Holidays
Share traditions, celebrate the holidays and create memories with those around you. The holiday season brings forth a variety of traditional...
What Do You Get From Giving?
Giving promotes happiness as a reward. What are the motivators that prompt us to give of our time, money and energy? It is often the giver, not the...
Artis Senior Living Offers Personalized Memory Care in Woodbury
Artis Senior Living offers a community tailored to seniors in need of memory care. Artis Senior Living doesn’t believe that memory care is...
Live Your Life Like Bob Ross
Margaret Wachholz from Woodbury Senior Living thinks we could all learn a lesson from American art icon Bob Ross. When my children have difficulty...
How to Stay Hopeful in Hard Times
Optimism will find its way around. We’re experiencing times when it’s easy to feel swept up and overwhelmed by the news, a pandemic and divisions in...
Grace in an Age of Rudeness
Find joy from the little things. Are we in tumultuous times? Have you experienced a lack of empathy from a supervisor, an employee, been passed over...
Be You and the World Will Adjust
Be aware that the shape of your life reveals itself to you. Does anyone ever want to socialize with negative people? Complaining and criticizing...
Moxie in Aging
Delightful encounters await you in your golden years, according to our elders—and they have lived long enough to know. Stinky cheese, scotch, some...
The Plight of the Modern-day Martyr
Do we “modern martyrs” lack a grand mission? Sage elders say, “Take comfort in the uneventful, it prepares you for what’s to come.” Too many of us...
Luxury Living at an Affordable Price: Legends of Woodbury Now Open
New 50+ independent living community offers luxury amenities at affordable prices. The Legends of Woodbury is a new independent living community for...
How to Make Apologies More Meaningful
Apologizing takes humility, courage and good timing. Apologizing takes humility, courage and good timing. My daughter seems to think that many have...
An Ode to Elevator Music
The experience of mall shopping—or elevator riding—is missing something these days—Muzak’s “classic” elevator music. The experience of mall...
In the New Year, Resolve to Live a More Purposeful Life
This year, forget about the usual resolutions and the superficial promises of vanity at New Year’s. Here we are in January: cold. Our snowbird...
What Dish Will Your Family Remember You By?
Our Woodbury Senior Living columnist reflects on how traditions help bond us to the ones we love. Overwhelming demands over the holidays can make us...
75-Year-Old Fitness Enthusiast’s Advice: ‘Just Keep Moving’
At 75, Polly Kegler is a lifter at UpLift with a changed attitude about health. Time rolls along for all those lucky enough to live a long life. An...
