Why and How To Be a Hospice Volunteer: Your Questions Answered
Cori Ballew, Ecumen Hospice Volunteer Specialist, talks about how and why to become a hospice volunteer.
Brain Fitness Takes More Than a Game App
Using brain-game apps to improve mental acuity are good as far as they go. You get better at playing games but not necessarily smarter or fitter.
Ecumen Lakeview Commons Interns Get Some Life-Changing Experience
"You think you're changing [the residents'] lives, but in reality, they're changing yours."
Top 5 Blog Posts — July 11, 2016
Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:
Ecumen Scholars Fellowship Program Graduates Its 2016 Class
Ten nursing students recently graduated from the Ecumen Scholars Fellowship Program after an intensive three-week program learning about senior care.
Honoring Pelican Valley Health Center Resident Dick Lyon and His Thousands of Photographic Memories
For Dick Lyon, photography is more than just taking pictures. It’s about preserving memories.
Doctors Specializing in Geriatrics In Short Supply
The elderly population in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds, but the number of doctors specially trained to treat them are not.
Zvago Glen Lake Owners Toast Their New Homes at Groundbreaking Ceremony
The rain stopped, the sun came out and a festive group of homeowners gathered May 25 on the north shore of Glen Lake in Minnetonka for a celebratory toast on the spot where their new homes will be.
Ground Is Broken and Construction Begins on Ecumen’s Abiitan Mill City in Downtown Minneapolis
Ecumen and Eagle Iron Partners hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking May 19, 2015, for their new development in the Mill District of Minneapolis, and construction has begun.
You can read these articles and more at ecumen.org.
Doctors Specializing in Geriatrics In Short Supply
The elderly population in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds, but the number of doctors specially trained to treat them are not.
Ecumen Scholars Fellowship Program Graduates Its 2016 Class
Ten nursing students recently graduated from the Ecumen Scholars Fellowship Program after an intensive three-week program learning about senior care.
Honoring Pelican Valley Health Center Resident Dick Lyon and His Thousands of Photographic Memories
For Dick Lyon, photography is more than just taking pictures. It’s about preserving memories.
Top 5 Blog Posts — July 5, 2016
Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:
Nicole Larson Receives Ecumen’s Powerful Partner Award
Nicole Larson’s mission is to make every day count for people near the end of life.
Let’s Give a Big Round of Applause for Jerry Barnhart and Archie Cobb at Point Pleasant Heights
Jerry Barnhart and Archie Cobb have been performing together for more than 70 years. They’ve traveled the world, bantering back and forth, telling jokes and finishing each other’s sentences. They love making people laugh.
Ecumen Century Club: Happy 104th Birthday Mildred Nelson
Ecumen honors Mildred “Millie” Nelson, a resident of Ecumen Pathstone Living, who is 104.
Zvago Glen Lake Owners Toast Their New Homes at Groundbreaking Ceremony
The rain stopped, the sun came out and a festive group of homeowners gathered May 25 on the north shore of Glen Lake in Minnetonka for a celebratory toast on the spot where their new homes will be.
Ground Is Broken and Construction Begins on Ecumen’s Abiitan Mill City in Downtown Minneapolis
Ecumen and Eagle Iron Partners hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking May 19, 2015, for their new development in the Mill District of Minneapolis, and construction has begun.
You can read these articles and more at ecumen.org.
Adult Children Dread the “Senior Care Talk” with Parents More than the “Sex Talk” with Kids
A national survey regarding senior care issues finds that adult children would rather talk to their kids about sex than talk to their parents about senior care.
Nicole Larson Receives Ecumen’s Powerful Partner Award
Nicole Larson of Ecumen Home Care & Hospice has won Ecumen's Powerful Partner Award for her hospice fundraising work.