Ed and Frieda Cohen built an exceptional marriage together, founded on a true sense of partnership and mutual respect. Now residents of Parker at Stonegate assisted living in Highland Park, they recently marked their 71st wedding anniversary surrounded by admiring staff and new friends, also receiving warm greetings from local friends in the community.
Everyone wants to be needed. Human beings are fulfilled when we have a job that benefits others in any way, whether we clean houses, teach children, run a business, or perform heart surgery. All religions clearly state that we should give to others who are not as fortunate as ourselves. When a person become a mature adult and begins receiving care or is moving to a long-term care residence, you might assume that he or she now benefits from other people’s beneficence. However, no matter how or fragile a person becomes, even if they can no longer live on their own, they often still want to find a way to give back and live a purposeful, meaningful life.
Sometimes, in order to understand what someone is going through, we have to literally step into their shoes, which is the ideology behind the Virtual Dementia Tour®.
Rutgers University senior Meghan Edson volunteers at Parker. Learn why.
Alvin describes his volunteer role at Parker and explains why he started volunteering.
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Friendships form easily over video chat at the Virtual Senior Center
All of that holiday cheer can take a toll on the bathroom scale. How to keep the extra pounds off, in 7 simple steps.
Roberto Muñiz, President and CEO of Parker, took a pledge to change the conversation about aging and the public's perception of older adults.
The percentage of households with multiple generations reached a low of 12% in 1980. Today, a record 60.6 million Americans — almost one in five – live in multigenerational households.