It Feels Like It’s Time To Retire
By Krista McBeath, McBeath Financial Group It’s Monday morning. You want to call in sick… sick of your job. Maybe you’ve been working too long and it’s not the same anymore. You really just want out. But ,you tell yourself you can’t retire yet. Or maybe you can, but should you? There’s nothing wrong with […]
Assisted Living Communities Benefit Residents Following Loss of Loved Ones
By Darla Price Heath, Community Relations Coordinator, Evergreen Senior Living Charles and Alice were married at age 18. After 64 years of marriage, Charles unexpectedly passed away. Alice not only lost her husband, but her best friend. She felt guilty about not realizing he was so sick. In the few days following his death, Alice was […]
ARC Celebrates Grand Reopening & National Senior Center Month
John Justick, now a dedicated member of the Normal Township Activity and Recreation Center (ARC), a center exclusively for adults 55 and up, began his membership during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2021, and immediately began participating in a variety of Zoom-based programs over the internet. He tried his luck in virtual […]
Making the Right Choice: Stand-Alone Or Embedded Memory Care?
Submitted by Sugar Creek Alzheimer’s Special Care Center There are few words in our language that strike such a visceral reaction as ‘dementia.’ Even when couched into less intimidating terms such as ‘cognitive decline,’ or ‘impaired memory’ the message is the same: life as we know it is changed on a dime. Whether the diagnosis […]
September 2021 Bloomington NV Issue
Volunteer-crafted Twiddle Muffs Keep Hospice Patients Engaged
By Chelsea Cook-McCarrell, General Manager for VITAS® Healthcare Anyone who has ever witnessed the agitated and nervous behavior of a patient with dementia or Alzheimer’s, or seen nursing home residents in wheelchairs seemingly staring into space for hours on end: Meet twiddle muff—and meet 65-year-old Wanda, a VITAS Healthcare volunteer who makes them. The twiddle muff does exactly […]
Explore the Many Retirement Living Options the Peoria Area Offers at the 17th Annual Senior Living Tour
With fall soon upon us, we know that winter is close behind. Wouldn’t it be nice not to be worried about shoveling the snow or traveling snowy roads to the grocery store? If you were living in a retirement community, you would be able to relax and spend time with friends, rather than worrying about […]
Age, Experience, and Enthusiasm
By Sandra Dempsey Post Workers begin their assigned jobs on the golf course very early in the morning. Much of the work required to maintain the 140-acre track of ground at Coyote Creek Golf Course takes place outside. A huge maintenance building houses essential tools and supplies to keep tractors and mowers and other motorized […]
August 2021 Peoria NV Issue
Holding On to Who You Are
Literary critic and professor Cleanth Brooks once observed, “There is a sense in which the man and the remembered days are one and the same. A man is the sum of his memories.” Good or bad, our memories are certainly part of who we are. They can shape us, guide us, and affect our relationships […]
