The process of determining if an elderly parent should no longer live alone is a difficult one for Baby Boomers and for the extended family at large. A new book, Why Wait? The Baby Boomers’ Guide to Preparing Emotionally, Financially & Legally for a Parents' Death, by Carolyn A. Brent, helps family caregivers to discern, discuss, and deal with end-of-life [...]
Sisters Elsie Eads (left) and Elizabeth Crawford work together to share food and love with neighbors, local charities. Sisters Elizabeth Crawford and Elsie Eads, who live down the hall from one another at Raleigh’s Springmoor Life Care Retirement Community, combine their love of baking and volunteering. Elizabeth enjoys baking and often sends desserts to her Springmoor friends. Elsie likes helping [...]
Today's kids have never known a time without computers or the Internet. According to a Pew Internet Project study from 2013, 95 percent of all children ages 12 to 17 are now online. Eight out of ten teens have a desktop or laptop computer. So what's a grandparent to do when hosting electronics-savvy grandkids for a few hours or days? [...]
SearStone Celebrates First Anniversary, Assesses Positive Economic Impact SearStone Continuing Care Retirement Community welcomed its first official residents on Nov. 1, 2013. To help celebrate the community’s first anniversary, residents, staff and board members attended a special ceremony on Nov. 7 to recognize the occasion and dedicate the lake around which the community is centered. The first anniversary also served as [...]
Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community has recently added several new employees to its management team. Lisa McClellan has joined the staff in the newly created position of Director of Talent and Work Life Enhancement Arts. Lisa oversees talent management and personnel policies, compensation strategies and benefit programs, and training and development for over 300 full-time and part-time employees. [...]
If you happen to be at Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community at 10:30 in the morning on any given weekday, and you’re in their main building, you might suddenly find yourself in the middle of a crowd of casually-dressed residents, their faces red and shiny, their hair somewhat disheveled, pouring out of Fellowship Hall. It’s the end of [...]
Re-inventing Corpening Apartments is the next phase of Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community’s forward-looking strategic plan. After the recent completion of a new neighborhood of 17 free standing homes, with six more to be built in 2013, and the opening of Asbury Place, a beautiful new building for residents who need assisted living, Arbor Acres is now getting ready [...]
As Salemtowne Retirement Community celebrates its first 40 years of service to older adults, we reflect on its heritage of compassion and care, and how two Single Sisters, Maria Vogler and Mary Anne Fogle, made a lasting difference. Moravians have historically been progressive in caring for others. In fact, [...]
Some of their fondest memories are of wilderness camping and canoeing in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State and in Canada. In fact, the night Jan and Frank Smith met, 61 years ago, they discovered their mutual love of the outdoors and knew it would be the benchmark for their activities in their marriage. Four children and untold [...]
Roger Gore, Marketing Director at Springmoor Life Care Retirement Community, has over ten years of experience working with seniors. It was one of those gorgeous fall days when the rustling gold and orange leaves and crisp air begs you to walk and enjoy. It happened that I needed to check on how renovations were coming along for one of our [...]
