While this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s events will be different, they continue to be deeply meaningful. They continue to help raise awareness about the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. They continue to help raise funds that make a difference in the lives of those facing Alzheimer’s. Brookdale Senior Living Inc. continues to be one of the largest corporate supporters of the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This year, thousands of Brookdale associates, residents, and patients are participating in or supporting virtual walks across the country.
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Congratulations to our Assisted Living August Everyday Hero, Bobby Lazzaroni, for his dedication to Brookdale Valparaiso. Bobby has been a cook for a year and a half. He lives our mission daily of enriching the lives of those we serve with compassion, respect, excellence, and integrity.
We wrapped up our National Assisted Living Week with a socially distanced campus cookout and an ice cream cart.
Thank you to all that helped us celebrate our residents and associates. Without your help and participation, our week long celebration wouldn't have been as successful.
Caregiving during times of crisis poses new challenges for many caregivers around the world. Before you burn yourself out, try these seven self-care tips to keep you active, healthy, and happy.
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Have you heard about our September webinar? Join us September 23 at 3 p.m. CST for a candid conversation about senior living and COVID-19. We'll discuss our procedures and protocols in place to help our residents and chat about why you may want to consider senior living right now. Plus, we’ll let you know what questions to ask as you start to explore your options. For more information or to RSVP visit:
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We want to send a HUGE thank you to everyone during this special week of celebrating Assisted Living Week! We are so grateful for each one of you. All the goodies, snacks, lunches and calls that were made and/or dropped off for our residents and associates were greatly appreciated!! You helped us celebrate our great residents and our wonderful associates, and we can't thank you enough for that.
Just a friendly reminder!
We are accepting donations of canned green beans & canned sweet potatoes/yams for the 500 Turkeys Food Drive. By donating, you are helping to provide 1000 families a nice thanksgiving meal this year.
Drop your canned green beans and canned sweet potatoes/yams off between now and November 6th at Brookdale Valparaiso Assisted Living.
Thank you so much for your donation in helping families to have a nice Thanksgiving meal this year.
Some of our ladies working on different projects within the community.
A couple of our men putting in some work building and tinkering.
Join us in welcoming Vi. We are so excited to have you join us as part of the Brookdale Valparaiso Memory Care family.
Join us in welcoming Ken. We are so excited to have you join us as part of the Brookdale Valparaiso Memory Care family.
Join us in welcoming Lillian. We are so excited to have you join us as part of the Brookdale Valparaiso Assisted Living family.
Here are all our entries so far for our pumpkin decorating event. Please turn in all entries by end of business day tomorrow.
Voting will take place for our scarecrows and pumpkins on Thursday, October 29th at our Senior Health Trunk or Treat.
We officially have 6 scarecrow scenes now for our scarecrow decorating event. If you want to participate, you have until tomorrow to get your scarecrows to us as we will vote for our favorite on Thursday, October 29th.
Stop by our drive-thru Trunk or Treat Senior Health Fair on Thursday, October 29th to cast your vote for your favorite scarecrow AND your favorite pumpkin.
Our residents still love to sit outside when we can catch a nice enough day to do so.
It's beginning to look a lot like fall in here.
Congratulations to our September Memory Care Everyday Hero, Christine, for her dedication to Brookdale Valparaiso. Christine has been a CNA for 2 years. She lives our mission daily of enriching the lives of those we serve with compassion, respect, excellence, and integrity.
Congratulations to our September Assisted Living Everyday Hero, Arielle, for her dedication to Brookdale Valparaiso. Arielle has been a CNA for 3 years. She lives our mission daily of enriching the lives of those we serve with compassion, respect, excellence and integrity.
Check out our new door decor. Our Memory Care residents enjoyed spending time making these to decorate their apartment doors. Aren't they fun?
Y'all, these retro handset iPad phones are a game-changer. We've been doing consistent virtual visits for the last 8 months, and they have been going well. We purchased this phone recently as it has been a struggle for some to be able to hear and understand all this new technology. We figured buying the phone would make it easier to understand on the technology end as they can hold the phone, just like they would a regular phone call. The phone is working out great, and we will continue to use it for our residents that want to use it as it has made their virtual visits so much better since they can hear so much better on it.
We recently talked about the things we are most grateful for. To follow, we made gratitude trees. Our Assisted Living residents had a good time doing this craft, as you can tell by their smiles as they were writing the things they're most grateful for. They each got to take their tree's back to their apartments and most of them have them sitting on their end tables, so they can see them every day.
Our Memory Care residents enjoyed making these fun acorn snacks made of nutter butter bites, chocolate frosting, chocolate sprinkles & a pretzel. After making them, they got to enjoy the taste of them as well. All approved of the sweet snack.
We are getting into the Thanksgiving spirit. At our most recent Happy Hour, we served hot cocoa and homemade pumpkin mousse, made by our Assisted Living residents. We made sure to have the mini marshmallows for the hot cocoa because it's not hot cocoa without them. We served the pumpkin mousse with ginger snaps.
We are proud to be named #1 in Customer Satisfaction in Assisted Living/Memory Care in the J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Senior Living Satisfaction Study. This honor is a testament to the resilience and dedication of our teams. http://bkd.co/6180p8QGp
Rosa is proud to have been able to receive the COVID-19 vaccination! Way to go, Rosa! 🎉 #BrookdaleHope
Recently, for My Life Story, we were reminiscing about the Good Old Days and it turned into our small group of residents getting some foreign language taught to us. Julie sang for us in Russian and Sid taught us some Lebanese words.
The group enjoyed it and it brought some big smiles to Julie & Sid's faces.
Check out our splash/ splat art. Some of our residents in Memory Care had fun creating their own colorful creations.
We had our first round of Covid-19 Vaccine's in our Memory Care, and we celebrated it!! Our residents and associates enjoyed photo opportunities, jello shots, appetizers & drinks! We are already planning how we will celebrate our next round of the Covid-19 Vaccine's.
We had our first round of Covid-19 Vaccines in our Assisted Living, and we celebrated it!! We called our celebration "Shots for Shots." Our residents and associates enjoyed photo opportunities, jello shots, appetizers & drinks! We are already planning how we will celebrate our next round of the Covid-19 Vaccines.
Sweet and delicate gingerbread flavors mingle with our coffee & milk, topped with whipped cream and caramel sauce. Our Assisted Living residents really enjoyed this hot specialty on this cold winter day.
