Independent Living

For many, the idea of moving into a senior living community can be a difficult one with which to reckon. If you have broached the subject with your aging loved one, you may have been met with resistance or even resentment. Conversely, if your adult children proposed a senior living option like assisted living for you, you likely experienced similar feelings.

According to the CDC, 33% of adults age 65 or older will experience a fall this year. For older adults, falls can cause very serious injuries like head trauma, internal bleeding, or hip fractures. These slips or tumbles are the leading cause for fatal and nonfatal injuries in older adults.

Moving into a retirement community offers many advantages: less time and money spent on upkeep, a worry-free lifestyle, a wider range of activities, and more. But a move can be stressful for older adults—not to mention physically exhausting.

When visitors walk through our community, we often hear them say, “There is something different here”. We believe that is because our residents and staff are brought together by common values and beliefs. We serve together, staff and residents, giving everyone an equal sense of purpose and commitment.

As our counties reopen in Washington, we are experiencing more freedom to move around and enjoy outdoor activities. Although they look much different than last summer, the Northwest is by far the richest area for picnics with hundreds of parks and day trip opportunities nearby.

As Washington adjusts to the new normal, how we personally define “summer fun” has dramatically changed. Even if everything has opened up, our lives and the way we look at social contact have been altered.

Although it is impossible to find exactly where the phrase first originated, the golfer Walter Hagen used to say “stop and smell the roses” and Mac Davis sang a song by the same title in 1974 with a series of important admonitions …

Being an earthly father is a tough job and sometimes gets a bad rap. We are quick to criticize our dads and forget that they were never meant to be the true example of fatherhood. All of our life experiences were designed to point us to our forever Father.

In 1969, a song was released about being single called “One is the Loneliest Number.” Made famous by Three Dog Night, the recording reached number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 that year and number four in Canada.