Ecumen Receives $5 Million Gift to Help Seniors
Ecumen has received a $5 million gift from Debbie and Robert Cervenka of Duluth — the largest private gift in Ecumen’s 150-plus-year history.
Top 5 Blog Posts —July 20
Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:
Centenarian and Navy Veteran Doris Brand Taught Kids to Read and Pilots to Fly
Doris Brand, who is 100, was born during World War I, taught in a one-room school in the 1920s, weathered the Great Depression, and became a Navy flight instructor in World War II.
Son's Heart-Wrenching Video Brings Attention to Father's Alzheimer's Disease
Brad Swientoniowski has captured the attention of thousands of viewers through a heart-wrenching video of his father's daily battle with Alzheimer's disease. Brad felt compelled to show the world that Alzheimer's is more than forgetfulness.
Ecumen COO Shelley Kendrick Featured in Star Tribune’s Movers & Shakers
In the Star Tribune’s Movers & Shakers column, Shelley Kendrick, Ecumen Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer, talks about Ecumen’s mission, its initiatives to change aging and how the Affordable Care Act is changing the senior living landscape.
Ecumen Volunteers Help Out at the National Senior Games
The Ecumen Business Development Department joined the 2,500 volunteers who are helping run the National Senior Games being held in the Twin Cities this year.
What It Means To Be Old: An Unexpected Lesson for the First Class of Ecumen Scholars
Ten student nurses interested in geriatric care recently came to Ecumen Pathstone Living for the inaugural Ecumen Scholars Fellowship Program. They left with an abiding lesson not taught in nursing school: What it means to be old.
You can read these articles and more at ecumen.org.
TED Talk Video: Older People Are Happier
Not only do we gain wisdom with age, we also gain happiness. Watch this enlightening discussion, presenting the research showing that happiness goes hand-in-hand with age. Watch as Laura Carstensen presents "Older People are Happier" at TEDxWomen.
From the TED website: In the 20th century we added an unprecedented number of years to our lifespans, but is the quality of life as good? Surprisingly, yes! At TEDxWomen psychologist Laura Carstensen shows research that demonstrates that as people get older they become happier, more content, and have a more positive outlook on the world.
Photo: TEDxWomen
100-year-old Becomes Oldest to Compete in 100-meter-dash
A hundred years of life has not slowed down Michigan native and World War II veteran Frederick Winter. At the National Senior Games, which conclude today in Minneapolis, Winter became the oldest man to complete the 100-meter dash, finishing with a time of 42.38 seconds. Read Winter's story and hear how he trained for the games in Sports Illustrated's article.
Centenarian and Navy Veteran Doris Brand Taught Kids to Read and Pilots to Fly
Doris Brand, who is 100, was born during World War I, taught in a one-room school in the 1920s, weathered the Great Depression, and became a Navy flight instructor in World War II.
Son's Heart-Wrenching Video Brings Attention to Father's Alzheimer's Disease
Brad Swientoniowski has captured the attention of thousands of viewers through a heart-wrenching video of his father's daily battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Ecumen Volunteers Help Out at the National Senior Games
The Ecumen Business Development Department joined the 2,500 volunteers who are helping run the National Senior Games being held in the Twin Cities this year.
Ecumen COO Shelley Kendrick Featured in Star Tribune’s Movers & Shakers
Shelley Kendrick, Ecumen Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer, in an interview with the Star Tribune talks about Ecumen’s mission, its initiatives to change aging and how the Affordable Care Act is changing the senior living landscape.
What You Need to Know about the White House Conference on Aging
The 2015 White House Conference on Aging is underway today (July 13, 2015). There are many ways to get involved in the discussion, even from afar. Find out What You Need to Know about the White House Conference on Aging from the Alliance for Aging Research.
Top 5 Blog Posts —July 13
Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers Delight the Ecumen Bethany Community
While in Alexandria, Minn., for the River Songs and Tales with Mark Twain Tour, members of The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers performed at Ecumen Bethany Community in the chapel — which the residents said never sounded so wonderful.
The Classic at Hillcrest Greens Senior Living Community Now Open in Altoona, Wisc.
The Classic at Hillcrest Greens in Altoona, Wisc., managed by Ecumen, is now open and new residents are starting to move in.
Ecumen Brooks in Owatonna Celebrates Its 15-Year Anniversary
Ecumen Brooks in Owatonna, an assisted living community, held its 15th anniversary celebration on June 11, 2015, with an open house timed perfectly to coincide with a pouring rain. Still, the turnout was great.
Buzzfeed: 8 Uplifting Tales of Coping with Dementia
Eight very different people living with dementia detail their exceptional coping strategies, such as: "I exercise like an Olympian" and "I've become a more abstract painter."
Sales Office Now Open for Zvago Glen Lake Co-op in Minnetonka
Zvago Glen Lake Cooperative, a new senior housing co-op planned for the north shore of Glen Lake in Minnetonka, has opened a sales office and showroom in walking distance from the site.
You can read these articles and more at ecumen.org.