The Saint Therese (sainttherese.org) community celebrated its 10th anniversary with a full day of activities. It began with donuts and coffee,...
Senior Living
Memory Cafe Offers Support to Caregivers
For family and friend caregivers, community support is essential. Betsy and Dick Ellis have lived in a quaint, two-story home on a cul-de-sac in...
Young at Heart, Active for Life at Woodbury’s YMCA
The Woodbury YMCA’s ForeverWell programming helps older adults stay healthy and connected. For many seniors, staying physically active and socially...
Three Local Girl Scouts Cultivate Connection
Three Girl Scouts bring a sense of pride and purpose to a senior living community. For the residents at Artis Senior Living of Woodbury, summers...
Different Planes: Listening to Seniors
Stephen R. Covey noted, “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” I find this true when it...
Touching Hearts at Home Provides More Than Just Senior Home Care
Senior care service goes beyond transportation and chores. For elders, every day tasks, such as general house maintenance or getting to-and-from...
Beauty and Endurance
Blaise Pascal, a polymath of the 1600s, said even a genius needs beauty, noting, “In difficult times, carry something beautiful in your heart.”...
Treasuring Uniqueness
Dementia Partners Woodbury provides resources and services for individuals with dementia. November is alzheimer's awareness month, and with a desire...
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...
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...
