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‘Holy Mic’ – Moving Seniors with Music
Featuring: Charita Wells, Activities Assistant, Carroll Manor “Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.” ― Mahalia Jackson...
Getting Bored is Not Allowed
Featuring: Marsy Shattuck, Activities Assistant, Knollwood Life Plan Community As a child, you may have read Eloise, the well-loved children’s book which chronicles the adventures of its eponymous heroine. Eloise is a precocious six-year-old girl...
Cultural Heritage That Honors Our Elders
Featuring Denise Cox, Care Manager, Arosa If you’ve been keeping up with Jared Diamond (author, anthropologist and UCLA geography Professor), you may have listened to his TED talk on how different cultures in traditional and modern societies treat...
Greeters, Greenery, Gadgetry — and Gratitude
Our community hospital is extraordinary. It was designed by the architect who created the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The main reception area is light and spacious with skylights and a dome-covered...
The Kindness of Strangers
Featuring: Nancy Smith, Transportation, Knollwood Life Plan Community We’ve all heard the parable of the Good Samaritan, the story about a traveler on his way to Jerusalem who is attacked by robbers, stripped of his clothes, beaten and left half...
You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup
Featuring: Sudi Rodway, Recreational Therapist As the COVID-19 virus ran its course through the country, it put incredible pressure on patients and residents in the nation’s hospitals and long-term care facilities. Older adults were particularly...
Managing a Sea Change in Caregiving
Featuring: Michelle Stull, CNA & Head of Housekeeping, Providence Place Senior Living Chambersburg Students of Greek mythology may remember Proteus, the old man of the sea—god of elusive sea change. As the story goes, Proteus knew everything,...
Recognizing All Team Members as Caregivers in October
As we coast into Fall, we are entering the holiday season. Sometimes, the glitz and glam of it all can overpower the meaning behind some of the holidays. Here at Ceca Foundation, we just celebrated World Gratitude Day (September 21) and, of course,...
Help Wanted
Featuring: Caregiver Lashonda B. CNA in Staffing & Scheduling With coronavirus restrictions easing and people out and about again, we’ve started seeing them everywhere – “Help Wanted” signs. They’re posted in restaurants and cafés, retail...
Caregiving Through Duct Tape
Featuring: George Bridges, Maintenance Technician, Goodwin House Alexandria In the movie The Martian, an intense sandstorm devastates a manned mission to Mars, and the crew must abandon the planet, leaving behind astronaut Mark Watney. He is...
Sometimes, Dancing with Residents in Lockdown is an Extraordinary Act of Care
Featuring: Aubrey Marrow, Resident Life Associate, Providence Place Senior Living Drums A year ago, as COVID-19 continued to spread rapidly, millions of people around the world celebrated Easter by staying home and watching Andrea Bocelli’s solo...
Finding Warmth in the Midst of Houston’s Storm
Featuring: Penny Isaac, Caregiver with Arosa’s Texas Branch In January 2021, temperatures in Siberia rose 100 degrees creating a mass of warm air that pushed the polar vortex off its axis at the north pole. By February, the concentration of cold...