Creative expression
Encouraging creative expression through the arts, Watercrest Senior Living residents can show off their talents or spark a new passion through the “Artful Expressions” program.
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Instrumental partnership
A special collaboration between a nonprofit life plan community and the Nashville Symphony is helping both entities re-emerge from the pandemic. Learn more, and read how to submit your photos for consideration. -
Hollywood classics
A Maryland independent living community recently turned its residents into movie stars and raised money for a local food bank in the process. Read more, and find out how to submit your photos for consideration! -
Pandemic survivor
Halie Forstner took a wagon from her home on the Sand Mountain to Chattanooga, TN, to get vaccinated against the Spanish flu in 1918. Last month, she moved into a Chattanooga assisted living community to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Read more, and find out how to submit your photos! -
Technology connections
By the end of the month, more than 1,400 Amazon Echo Show 8 devices will have been delivered to senior living communities in North Carolina, thanks to a federal grant. -
Holiday drive-bys
In a season of social distancing and amidst a global pandemic, senior living communities looked for alternate ways to help residents safely celebrate the holidays. Learn more, and find out how to submit your photos! -
Gingerbread dreams
The dining services team at Tulsa, OK, continuing care retirement community Montereau created a gingerbread village for its residents to enjoy during the holidays. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Gobble Hobble Wobble
With holidays centered around food, it can be difficult to honor pledges to shed the extra calories we take in with large helpings and rich desserts. But residents of North Dallas-based Presbyterian Village North snuck in a workout before indulging in a Thanksgiving Day feast. Find out more, and learn how to send in your photos! -
Thankful Thanksgiving
IntegraCare showed its gratitude for its employees by delivering 352 Thanksgiving dinners to team members at its 11 senior living communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. -
Mask Lady of Waterman
A retired rehab nurse turned quarantine at her Florida senior living community into a mask making business. -
Happy Meals = Happy residents
Memory care and assisted living residents at Lexington Square Senior Living in Lombard, IL, recently were treated to a trip down McDonald’s memory lane with Happy Meals. -
Art with a twist
Residents of American House Senior Living Communities recently took part in the Getty Museum’s Social Media Challenge to liven up their quarantine situation. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
75 heroes, 75 days
After 75 days of sheltering-in-place with residents at a Georgia life plan community to reduce COVID-19 exposure on its campus, 75 staff members returned home to their own families. -
Wedding at the Plaza
The coronavirus pandemic was no match for Patricia Bullock and Tom Coleman, who recently sealed their love and commitment with a wedding at the independent living community where they met. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Celebrating student caregivers
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down senior living communities around the country, it also shut down graduation plans for many of their student workers. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Senior-to-senior advice
Graduating high school seniors across the country are hearing plenty of advice from family members, friends, teachers and graduation speakers. Residents of the Charlotte, NC-based Waltonwood Cotswold offered their own words of wisdom — senior to senior. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Giving their regards
It’s not every day that four Broadway stars take requests from older adults, sing show tunes and pay tribute to long-term care workers, all in one performance. Especially during a pandemic. But that’s exactly what New Jersey-based Van Dyk Health Care recently arranged for its residents and employees. Read more, and find out how to submit your photos! -
Sweet treats, flowers for moms
Moms at the Vi at Bentley Village in Naples received a special culinary surprise and flowers in celebration of Mother’s Day. Learn how to submit your photos! -
Hopping holiday
Senior living communities found ways to help residents observe Easter and Passover despite restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more, and read how to submit your photos! -
Love in the time of coronavirus
An Oakmont Senior Living resident recently watched her granddaughter get married in the parking lot of her senior living community. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
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Signs of the times
Senior living operators are finding visible ways to recognize their employees for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos.
Sharing the cheer
Golden Oaks Village retirement community is welcoming poems, letters and drawings from the greater community and has created a hashtag to shine a light on efforts to bring laughter, love and uplifting messages to residents who remain socially isolated from family and friends. Learn more, and find out how to share your photos!
Special delivery
Assisted living and nursing home residents are receiving pictures and letters from children of employees of Heart of Hospice – Acadiana in an effort to help mitigate the effects of social isolation. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Paddy craft
Residents at The Inn at Ironwood recently made St. Patrick’s Day wreaths to get in the spirit for the upcoming holiday. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Mardi party
Residents and staff members of Argent Court Assisted Living in Brenham, TX, recently celebrated Mardi Gras by listening to Cajun music, eating king cake, wearing handmade masks and lots of beads, and sharing memories from holidays past. Find out how to submit your photos!
Testing, testing, yum-2-3
Chefs from Vi at Bentley Village, Naples, FL, teamed up with local public media Feb. 20 to host “America’s Test Kitchen” and serve up a healthy lunch. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Feel-good February
Residents at all Meridian Senior Living communities have been sharing love stories in February. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Valentines for veterans
Pegasus Senior Living communities across the country have been making and accepting Valentine’s Day cards for residents who are veterans. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Flower Factory
Residents at Mennonite Home Communities in Lancaster, PA, create flower arrangements from resident-grown blooms. Read what happens to them, and learn how to submit your photos!
Pooch park
Mercy Health – Oakwood Village Senior Living in Springfield, OH, recently built a dog park for residents and their pets to enjoy. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Resident artist
A new portrait of Laketown Village by a resident named Norman now greets residents and visitors to the assisted living and memory care community in Kenner, LA. Learn more, and find out how to submit your photos!
Hitting it out of the park
Buckner Parkway Place resident Shirley Clark and Houston Astros player José Altuve have more in common than a love of baseball. Read more, and find out how to submit your photos!
Chopping for charity
Residents of Brandywine Living at Mountain Ridge recently gathered to cut up vegetables for a soup they delivered to a soup kitchen. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos.
Senior living residents, 102 and 88, put out an album
Alan R. Tripp and Marvin Weisbord may be the oldest professional songwriting team in music history.
Comedy as communication aid
Fellowship Community recently presented a dementia improvisation learning experience for care partners of those living with dementia. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Putting the can in Canco
Residents, families and staff at The Woods at Canco recently donated cans and bottles to support a local radio show in its three-day Cans for a Cure fundraiser for breast cancer awareness. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Dolled up donations
Two assisted living residents of Broadway Mesa Village are using their creativity to help local children. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Planting pride, purpose
Thrive Senior Living has added indoor sensory garden and therapeutic horticulture programming, and herb gardening and cooking activities, to some communities. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
Flower power
Meridian Senior Living’s Regency Palms Long Beach Assisted Living and Memory Care in Long Beach, CA, recently installed an outdoor mural by Tokyo artist Luise Ono. Read more, and find out how to submit your photos!
Bike backers
Elma Buttermore, 95, and other Lutheran SeniorLife Passavant Community residents recently got to ride on the backs of a Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
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