Did you know that there’s an LSS Bicycling Team? Inaugurated last year, this rapidly growing club was formed to participate in the MS150, a nationwide cycling marathon dedicated to fighting Multiple Sclerosis. And they’re on the lookout for new members as they prepare for this year’s ride. “Right now, we’re getting ready for the Ozarks [...]
LSS’ Concordia Village community in Springfield, Illinois, kicked off the construction of its new skilled nursing care center July 20 with a special groundbreaking ceremony in its chapel. The new addition will welcome as many as 64 residents to four 16-bed “households”, designed to create a home experience. Offering common living, dining, and kitchen areas, [...]
At its annual awards banquet July 22, the Heartland Affordable Housing Management Association (HAHMA) named Lutheran Senior Services the Management Company of the Year for its size category (500+ units). HAHMA, a professional organization serving affordable housing management companies in Missouri and Kansas, lauded LSS for making significant contributions to providing quality housing for individuals with [...]
From the front page of the Edwardsville Intelligencer: “The facilities aren’t the only thing expanding at Meridian Village in Glen Carbon. With the opening of the new skilled nursing care center scheduled for the first week of October, Meridian Village is looking to add approximately 50 new staff members. To that end, a job fair [...]
The red carpet. The eveningwear. The popping of paparazzi flashbulbs. These can only mean one thing—prom nights at Hidden Lake! For two days, the community’s Hearth dining room is transformed into a glitzy, glamorous ballroom worthy of the Academy Awards, with golden throated crooner Gary Bennett providing the soundtrack for an evening to remember. Patty [...]
According to the National Sleep Foundation, a majority of Americans are having problems sleeping, many of them seniors. What’s causing this epidemic of insomina? A wide range of problems, including psychological factors, stress, and medications. So what can you do to help you combat these sleep stealers and drift off to dreamland? The National Sleep Foundation [...]
By Roxanne Hinkle, Lutheran Senior Services “Simplify, simplify!” wrote Henry David Thoreau. “It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” When you work in the traditionally conservative senior housing industry like I do, you don’t meet a lot of people who describe themselves as Thoreauvean thinkers. [...]
Thousands of KTRS listeners tune in to hear John Marecek talk baseball, but on July 13, some lucky residents of Meramec Bluffs didn’t even have to touch their radio dial to hear how the Cards did. Marecek conducted a live broadcast of his show from Meramec Bluffs. Residents enjoyed breakfast during a special in-depth Q&A with one [...]
“Oh, my dears, this won’t do at all” cries the Mad Hatter, standing in the doorway to Lenoir Woods’ Fireside Room. “Where are your hats? You can’t attend a tea party without a hat!” Fortunately, the Hatter (nee Megan Lau, Lenoir Woods’ activities director) has a wide assortment of ‘loaners’—from pith helmets and sombreros to [...]
By Roxanne Hinkle, Lutheran Senior Services Michalangelo. Louis Pasteur. Eleanor Roosevelt. Alexander Graham Bell. Susan B. Anthony. Einstein. Edison. Twain. Gandhi. What do they have in common? They all did some of their best work after the age of 60. That said, let me introduce you to John Knapp, a 93-year-old resident of the Heisinger [...]
