“How ya doing!” Kay Zotta fairly shouts as Jean Plesko walks in the door of Meramec Bluffs’ wellness center. Kay, the aquatic director for the community, is quick with a hug and generous with her smiles—all the Meramec Bluffs residents who came to the January 24 wellness open house got at least one. Jean is [...]
If you’re on Facebook, you can raise money to help LSS residents with the click of a mouse. It’s this easy: all you have to do is click here to visit LSS’ Facebook page. While you’re there, click the “Like” button. Thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor, LSS will receive $1 for [...]
This week’s edition of the Columbia (Missouri) Business Times featured a major story on the planned repositioning of Lenoir Woods, LSS’ senior living community in Columbia. Reporter Jacob Barker writes: Columbia’s largest retirement community plans to go far beyond renovation. During the next three to five years, LSS intends to invest $50 million in new [...]
The pundits and playmakers have theories of their own about how the Mizzou Tigers were able to beat out Nebraska at their Big 12 home opener January 11. But Lutheran Senior Services knows the real reason: it was thanks to the residents and staff of Lenoir Woods. More than 20 representatives from LSS’ Columbia, Missouri, [...]
Not feeling as sharp as you once were? It happens to all of us — as we age, our brains change. A phenomenon called sensory integration (literally, the confusion of different sensory information) makes it harder to filter out distracting sights and sounds when you’re trying to focus on a single task. But are we [...]
Martin Luther King Day has been given new significance in recent years as a day for volunteer service. In that spirit, KSDK Channel 5′s Jennifer Blome featured St. Louis’ Senior Connections Program during this morning’s newscast. The program’s goal is to reach out to older adults in the area and to help them stay socially [...]
Twice a year, Lutheran Senior Services honors its best and brightest with the Shining Star Awards. This fall, four LSS staff members were singled out as the best and brightest for their dedicated efforts to help those we serve live life to the fullest. Karen Splaingard Billing Manager, In-Home Services In her 10 plus years [...]
Judy Nowack, a member of the dining services team at LSS’ Laclede Groves community, was featured in “How I Did It,” a regular column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which spotlights area residents who overcame great odds. In Judy’s case, that means losing over 160 pounds in one year. “I wanted to live longer,” Judy [...]
Great news from the front lines of the fight against Alzheimer’s disease — last week, President Obama signed the National Alzheimer’s Project Act into law. NAPA, as it’s more commonly known, will help create a national strategy to “address the Alzheimer crisis and coordinate national efforts in Alzheimer research, clinical care, institutional, home and community-based [...]
In 2008, LSS introduced its Home Conversion Program as a way of helping seniors make the move from their existing homes to a senior living community. Under this process, older adults can transfer their home to LSS in exchange for a tax-advantaged income stream that never changes during their lifetime. This takes the uncertainty out [...]
