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Stocking Stuffers For Assisted Living Facilities Get Big Community Support

This article was originally published on Central Oregon Daily News Laid out on folding tables at the Redmond Senior Center, heaps of unstuffed stockings. “It renews my faith in humankind I guess,” said Cheryl Garr the Stocking Program Organizer. Piled on the tables, donations for the stockings. Socks, toiletries, candy, games, coloring books, and hand-made crafts all brought by folks…
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Jesycua Pinnell, left, talks with Senator Randi Becker about living at Easthaven Villa in this file photo.

Sustainability of Our Work Is Challenged if We Cannot Extend Emergency Medicaid Funding

This guest commentary was originally published on Yelmonline.com  We may be approaching the two-year anniversary of the pandemic, but those of us on the frontlines providing long-term care for our most vulnerable populations are still navigating what can feel like a day-to-day crisis. For example, as the administrator of Easthaven Villa Assisted Living & Memory Care Community here in Yelm…
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adults have a better chance of surviving COVID-19 in long-term care communities than at home

Long-Term Care Communities Providing Safety During The Pandemic’s

Among all demographics, the pandemic took the severest toll on the elderly. Even the healthiest seniors often proved unable to withstand the effects of the virus. Not surprisingly, this led to high death rates in nursing home facilities. However, recent studies indicate that this was the result of collective patient demographics and not patient care. In fact, one study showed…
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How Caring Places Engages Seniors With Dementia

Dementia care has come a long way in the past century. Whereas dementia care focused on keeping dementia patients sedate in the past, today, it focuses on increasing their overall quality of life. One proven method of accomplishing this goal is through engagement. Per findings published in the US National Library of Medicine, engaging a dementia parent can have several…
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Gardening for older people has multiple benefits, both physically and mentally.

Gardening For Older People: Caring Places Management Offering Therapeutic Connection to Nature

At Caring Places Management, we are always looking for ways to enhance the lives of our residents. That’s why we are so excited to announce our new affiliation with the organization Eldergrow to provide therapeutic gardening programs. We have chosen Beehive Retirement in McCleary, WA, as the facility where we will pilot this program. Gardening for older people offers a…
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Carriage Place Now Offers Memory Care!

PRESS RELEASE Carriage Place Now Offers Memory Care! The solution to the growing need of Memory Care services is now closer to home in Prineville. Prineville, OR, April 21, 2021— According to SeniorAdvice.com, 69,000 people in Oregon aged 65 and older lived with Alzheimer’s disease in 2020 and projections estimate that by 2025, 84,000 seniors in the state will have Alzheimer’s.  Since opening their doors in 1991, Caring Places Management’s mission has…
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serving memory care, independent living, senior living, assisted living

Caring Places Management Is Expanding More Communities Into Memory Care Facilities To Meet Demands

For organizations that provide memory care support, it is important to continually evaluate the level of services provided to the community and residents of the organization. Caring Places Management has been in tune with current residents and their families’ needs, delivering the best in memory support for those dealing with dementia and Alzheimer’s. In response to the growing need to…
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A Year Unlike Any Other

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An unprecedented year.  That phrase became a common refrain this year.  Unprecedented applied to everything, from the spread of novel coronavirus; to schools, businesses, and nations being locked down for the sake of preventing a public health crisis.  Many of us added new words to our vocabularies that outside the medical industry no one knew, pandemic, PPE (Personal Protective Equipment),…
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Caring Places Provide Small Home-Like Communities

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Since 1991 Caring Places have prided themselves in owning and operating small home-like assisted living and memory care communities.  We feel there are a number of advantages our smaller community size offers; stronger connections between residents and caregivers, closer relationships between residents, the ability to provide individualized care plans to meet the individual needs of each resident and many more.…
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