Each year we bring our team leaders to Hutchinson for an educational conference. During our winter conference, we announce those who won awards during the previous year. Last night, we announced the winners of the 2012 awards. *Pictured above, L to R: Dean Bloemke,…
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Meeting of the Minds Dementia Conference 2012
This weekend, Welcome Home and some of our community representatives will be attending the Meeting of the Minds conference from the MN/Dakota Alzheimer’s Association in St. Paul. We are proud to be one of the sponsors for this year’s event! The Meeting of the Minds…
Home for the Holidays
By Todd Corrow, Marketing Associate at Legends at Heritage Place and Lisa Lehmann, Director of Resident Services at Twin Town Villa. As families gather together during this upcoming Holiday Season, some may face seeing changes in their parents. Our goal is to assist all families…
Great day of discussion – Community Life Coordinator’s Fall Workshop
What an amazing day filled with ideas and great discussion among a bunch of talented people! Today, we hosted our Community Life Coordinator’s and the Director’s of Resident Services from our communities. Quite honestly,
Thomas Landing team walks to find an end to Alzheimer’s
What an honor to walk with so many people committed to find and end to Alzheimer’s on Saturday, September 10, 2011. The walk started at 9:30am on a beautiful, sunny day. Walkers of all ages helped raise over $31,000.00 from the Rice Lake area. There…
A Walk to End Alzheimer’s
Today, as many as 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. In addition, 10 million baby boomers are aging, increasing their risk for developing this fatal disease. Now is the time to end this epidemic! But there is something we can do to stop this…
Welcome Back!
We are very proud to welcome back a familiar face to our company today. Sue Jutz, takes the reigns as the new Director of Resident Services at Thomas Landing Senior Living Community in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Thomas Landing offers assisted living, independent living, memory care and…
For the love of food
In an older adults life, food plays a vital role. How it looks, how it tastes, the texture, to how it is perceived. Every year, we bring our Food Service Director’s together for workshops where we cover topics that are useful to them and their…
Fighting Ageism in America
We recently returned from the Assisted Living Federation of America conference and there was a common theme we would like to share. In today’s society, there seems to be a lot of “ageism” out there. Ageism is defined as discrimination against people on the grounds of…
Aging Parents: 5 warning signs of health problems
Recently, I had a chance meeting with one of our families outside of the work environment and we got to talking about a variety of things. One of the points of conversation that was most interesting is the process that families go through when looking…