92-year-old vet donates $1M to help further nursing home care
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 29, 2018
A Washington state assisted living resident is making a sizable donation to one university in the hopes of furthering the field of nursing home care.
Brothers, 95 and 97, reunited as roommates in Florida nursing home for vets
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 22, 2018
Years ago, as boys growing up in Connecticut, Walter and Jack Kaslikowski would sometimes share a room with their two other brothers. Now, nearly a century later, the two military veterans, 95 and 97,...
Delaware SNF for kids takes residents on ‘most magical’ journeys
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 15, 2018
This is not about an average trip to Disney World. It’s going to require around 36 staffers, including two physicians and an FBI agent, and will probably cost about $170,000.
It’s never too early for Christmas at Texas nursing homes
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 08, 2018
Jo Alch knows Christmas is still months and months away. But that isn’t stopping the Dallas woman from bringing Santa Claus, and a little warmth and joy, to local nursing homes this summer.
CCRC happily reeling from $2.4 million gift from woman who never lived there
By
Meredith Beirne
Aug 01, 2018
103-year-old E. Ruth Harris left a $2.4 million gift in her will to Evenglow, a continuing care retirement community in Pontiac, IL, and the real beauty of it is, neither she nor any family member ever...
Resident gets her high school diploma at 92
By
Marty Stempniak
Jul 25, 2018
It took 75 years, but Dorothy Leiss is now a high school graduate.
Casting lines of generosity
By
Meredith Beirne
Jul 18, 2018
Ten seniors, along with support staff at Waveny LifeCare Network recently took a fishing trip, facilitated by Waveny’s Facility Operations Coordinator Dontay Dempsey, to Norwalk’s Calf Pasture...
Nursing home employee saves resident’s life
By
Meredith Beirne
Jul 11, 2018
Authorities and others are hailing a nursing home employee for saving a resident’s life after a fire broke out at a nursing home in Logan, UT, on Friday.
Nursing home goes for world bingo record
By
Marty Stempniak
Jun 27, 2018
A Louisiana nursing home attempted to break the world record for longest continuous game of bingo last week, as a way to celebrate the Summer Solstice.
Seniors capture memories for seniors
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2018
School’s out for summer, but Sarina Helmer and Arlene Schmid will always be able to look back on the time they spent together.