They dig it
Brandywine Living of Princeton, NJ, boasts a serious green thumb. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos!
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Seniors celebrate seniors
At Cincinnati-based Wickshire Senior Living, seniors are giving back to (high school) seniors. The “Seniors Celebrating Seniors” campaign puts the spotlight on the graduating class of Deer Park High School. Learn more, and find out how to submit your photos! -
Wheels for workers
Who would have thought that all it would take to get a new car would be to show up to work? Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Gardening goals
In accordance with the spring season, two senior living communities are cultivating their green thumbs for the greater good. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Pandemic pom squad
At Friendship Village, a senior living community in Schaumburg, IL, the young-at-heart ladies wanted to have some fun. So, they did. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Pals with paws
Although residents at Rose Crest Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation and Assisted Living, located in Inman, SC, may have been away from their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, they were not alone. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Dream Flights
Discovery Senior Living is partnering with Dream Flights to locate and provide opportunities for World War II veterans to fly aboard a restored Boeing Stearman biplanes. Learn more, and find out how to submit your photos! -
Donut Day
When Juniper Village at Spicewood Summit joined the rest of the long-term care industry in closing its doors during the pandemic, Connections Director Shelly Herrera came up with a sweet idea. Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Big celebrations
Morning Pointe of Chattanooga celebrated assisted living resident Halie Forstner’s 110th birthday with a parade, a large, pink cake, 110 pink balloons and 110 bottles of her favorite drink, Coca-Cola. Meanwhile, in Fort Myers, FL, 102-year-old Cypress Cove independent living resident Elmer Blair recently celebrated his newly received Bronze Star medal, which recognizes his efforts in leading his Army platoon safely away from an attack by a German tank in 1944 during World War II. Find out more, and see how to submit your photos! -
Golden PAWS
Family and friends aren’t the only visitors re-entering a Naples, FL, life plan community. Therapy dogs also are resuming their rounds with assisted living residents. Read more, and find out how to submit your photos! -
On target
Is ax-throwing the hottest new craze sweeping senior living communities? Find out more, and learn how to submit your photos! -
Capturing COVID
White Horse Village, a continuing care retirement community in Newtown Square, PA, is creating a time capsule to capture the essence of a global pandemic. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos. -
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. Read more, and learn how to submit your photos. -
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!
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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!
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!
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