Volunteer-crafted Twiddle Muffs Keep Hospice Patients Engaged
By Chelsea Cook-McCarrell, General Manager for VITAS® Healthcare Anyone who has ever witnessed the agitated and nervous behavior of a patient with dementia or Alzheimer’s, or seen nursing home residents in wheelchairs seemingly staring into space for hours on end: Meet twiddle muff—and meet 65-year-old Wanda, a VITAS Healthcare volunteer who makes them. The twiddle muff does exactly […]
Explore the Many Retirement Living Options the Peoria Area Offers at the 17th Annual Senior Living Tour
With fall soon upon us, we know that winter is close behind. Wouldn’t it be nice not to be worried about shoveling the snow or traveling snowy roads to the grocery store? If you were living in a retirement community, you would be able to relax and spend time with friends, rather than worrying about […]
Age, Experience, and Enthusiasm
By Sandra Dempsey Post Workers begin their assigned jobs on the golf course very early in the morning. Much of the work required to maintain the 140-acre track of ground at Coyote Creek Golf Course takes place outside. A huge maintenance building houses essential tools and supplies to keep tractors and mowers and other motorized […]
August 2021 Peoria NV Issue
Holding On to Who You Are
Literary critic and professor Cleanth Brooks once observed, “There is a sense in which the man and the remembered days are one and the same. A man is the sum of his memories.” Good or bad, our memories are certainly part of who we are. They can shape us, guide us, and affect our relationships […]
