Author: Ryan Winiarski

How Two CRC Residents are Helping Find a Cure to Alzheimer’s.

For Chuck and Sharon Lilly, residents of Chelsea Retirement Community (CRC), the Walk to End Alzheimer’s is personal. Both Sharon’s parents and Chuck’s father had Alzheimer’s, and each has a sister with the disease. In 2008, Chuck, a retired hospital administrator, was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment and, later, with Alzheimer’s. Now, the couple is […]

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How United Methodist Retirement Communities is Making a Difference for its Staff Caregivers.

In a study by the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) and AARP (Caregiving in the U.S., 2015), NAC President Gail Gibson Hunt said, “There’s a double-edged sword when we fail to support caregivers, because we put both the caregiver and the care recipient at risk.” Yet, in a survey of over 1,200 caregivers, more than […]

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Rivertown – Detroit 67 Project

Two years ago, Julia Szuper, Executive Director for The Thome Rivertown Assisted Living Neighborhood in Detroit, learned about the Detroit Historical Society’s plans to conduct an oral history project, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1967 riots. She knew immediately this was something exciting the native Detroiters living at Rivertown could help with. Detroit Historical […]

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Music and Memory: How Towsley Village is Using Music to Improve Memory

“I can’t carry a tune, but I love music,” says Chelsea Retirement Community (CRC) volunteer Chris Tramontin. For the last two years, Chris has shared her love of music with residents at CRC’s Towsley Village Memory Care Center through the Music and Memory program. Chris knows exactly how much this program means for residents with […]

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