Living Life Well to the Conclusion

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By Sandra Dempsey Post Few pre-teens make it to adolescence without learning details about rock and roll music. That’s how it was some 60 years ago, and I know because it was my era for Music 101. Like most kids, I knew basics about vocalists; cute guys singing the blues, or the drummer who could […]

Evergreen Cemetery Walk 2022

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Over the course of the past two years, the Evergreen Cemetery Walk has been forced to navigate some major challenges, including being forced to go fully remote in 2020, and then last year, reducing capacity through a hybrid format due to the continued COVID 19 pandemic. But we met those challenges head on and none […]

ARC Celebrates a Year of Growth This National Senior Center Month

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If you asked the management team of the Normal Township Activity & Recreation Center (ARC) at the end of 2021 what we thought 2022 would bring for the center and for the 55+ community, I’m not sure any one of us would have known how to answer. The challenges and changes ARC navigated since the […]

Making The Right Choice: Stand-Alone Or Embedded Memory Care?

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Submitted by Sugar Creek Alzheimer’s Special Care Center There are few words in our language that strike such a visceral reaction as “dementia.” Even when couched into less intimidating terms such as “cognitive decline,” or “impaired memory” the message is the same: life as we know it is changed on a dime. Whether the diagnosis […]