5 Great Immune-Boosting Foods

A recent article for AARP discusses five great immune-boosting foods to help the public, especially seniors, stay healthy this winter. 

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Top 5 Blog Posts — Feb. 27, 2017

Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:

Mark Ritchie Shares the Story of Minnesota’s World’s Fair Bid with Abiitan Mill City Residents
Former Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie paid a call on a welcoming audience of Abiitan Mill City residents this week to talk about his current job promoting Minnesota’s bid to host a three-month long World’s Fair Expo in 2023. “This will be like hosting a Super Bowl every day for 90 days,” he told the Abiitan residents, many of whom are well-known Minnesota boosters.

St. Mark’s Living Helps Paint the Town of Austin Pink – And Supports Its Director of Nursing in Her Cancer Battle
For the past five years, St. Mark’s Living has been raising money for Austin, Minnesota’s annual “Paint the Town Pink” to support research on breast cancer prevention and treatment. This year’s effort had special meaning since St. Mark’s Director of Nursing Teresa Nelson is fighting her own breast cancer battle.

10 Misconceptions about Aging
In a recent article for AgingCare, Dr. Allen Weiss, CEO and President of the NCH Healthcare System, writes that “An old adage is again proving true: What we think will happen, happens. Essentially, as we age, we become what we think we will become.”

Eleanore Ebeling Remembers Calvin Coolidge, Model T Fords and the First Radios
Over the past 102 years, Eleanore Ebeling, a resident of Ecumen Meadows in Worthington, Minn., has gathered a lot of wonderful memories.  She recently shared her story with Ryan McGaughey, Managing Editor of the Worthington Daily Globe. 

Wednesdays with Genny, Ecumen Hospice Volunteer
Hospice volunteers know a secret. The common perception is that they do the sad work of helping people die. The truth is, they do the joyful and fulfilling work of helping people live – right to the very end. Genny Swanner of Chisago City knows the rewards of that work.

You can read these articles and more at ecumen.org


Mark Ritchie Shares the Story of Minnesota’s World’s Fair Bid with Abiitan Mill City Residents

Former Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie paid a call on a welcoming audience of Abiitan Mill City residents this week to talk about his current job promoting Minnesota’s bid to host a three-month long World’s Fair Expo in 2023. 

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St. Mark’s Living Helps Paint the Town of Austin Pink – And Supports Its Director of Nursing in Her Cancer Battle

For the past five years, St. Mark’s Living has been raising money for Austin, Minnesota’s annual “Paint the Town Pink” to support research on breast cancer prevention and treatment. 

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10 Misconceptions about Aging

A recent article for AgingCare explains that there is no typical “older personality.”

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Eleanore Ebeling Remembers Calvin Coolidge, Model T Fords and the First Radios

Over the past 102 years, Eleanore Ebeling, a resident of Ecumen Meadows in Worthington, Minn., has gathered a lot of wonderful memories. 

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Top 5 Blog Posts — Feb. 20, 2017

Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:

Wednesdays with Genny, Ecumen Hospice Volunteer
Hospice volunteers know a secret. The common perception is that they do the sad work of helping people die. The truth is, they do the joyful and fulfilling work of helping people live – right to the very end. Genny Swanner of Chisago City knows the rewards of that work.

Congratulations to Pelican Valley Senior Living – Winner of the LeadingAge Minnesota Community Impact Award!
The annual LeadingAge Minnesota “Stars Among Us” awards celebrate the best of the best in senior housing and service. This year Ecumen-managed Pelican Valley Senior Living in Pelican Rapids received the Community Impact Award.

Congratulations to Grand Village's Wendy Griese -- Winner of LeadingAge Minnesota's Ray Johnson Leadership in Action Award
Wendy Griese and her outstanding work at Ecumen-managed Grand Village in Grand Rapids, Minn., are detailed in this Changing Aging blog post.

Abiitan Mill City Featured in The Journal
The Journal, a newspaper serving downtown and northeast Minneapolis, last week highlighted Ecumen’s Abiitan Mill City and Smith & Porter Restaurant. Reporter Eric Best takes readers on a tour in words and pictures.

How to Protect Yourself from Health Scams
Modern technology allows for more ways than ever to fall victim to health scams. Whether it be through the internet, radio, magazines or television, scammers are becoming increasingly clever at fooling the public into thinking a scam is an honest advertisement.

You can read these articles and more at ecumen.org


Senior man and woman having coffee at table seen through window

Congratulations to Pelican Valley Senior Living – Winner of the LeadingAge Minnesota Community Impact Award!

Ecumen-managed Pelican Valley Senior Living in Pelican Rapids received the 2017 LeadingAge Minnesota Community Impact Award.

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Senior man and woman having coffee at table seen through window

Abiitan Mill City Featured in The Journal

The Journal, a newspaper serving downtown and northeast Minneapolis, this week highlights Ecumen’s Abiitan Mill City and Smith & Porter Restaurant.

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Wednesdays with Genny, Ecumen Hospice Volunteer

Genny Swanner of Chisago City shares the rewards of hospice volunteering.

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