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Assisted Living Week Emphasizes “Keeping Connected”
September 15, 2016 | Blog Post
By Tammy Malewski, Marketing and Fund Development Director, Valley VNA Seniors are the fastest growing internet and social media users today. They typically use it to reconnect with people from their…
Healthy Snacks For Seniors
August 26, 2016 | Blog Post
By Julia Ryan, Valley VNA Food Service Coordinator Valley VNA has its share of active gardeners. Many of our residents had large family gardens from which they harvested and preserved…
A Night Out? Healthy Breaks For Caregivers
August 19, 2016 | Blog Post
By Colleen Harvot, Director of In-Home Care, Valley VNA Researchers have proven caring for a spouse between ages 66 and 96 can increase a caregiver’s risk of death by 63…
Tim Galloway
August 9, 2016 | Valley VNA Voice
Tim Galloway’s daughter Sofia needed him a couple of years ago. She was directing Neenah’s Riverside Players’ production of Oklahoma, and she needed an old man. “She cast me as…
Storytelling With An Elderly Person
July 29, 2016 | Blog Post
By Kellie Smillie, Day Shift Manager, Valley VNA It’s all the rage today, the value of “story” and the ability of storytelling to build empathy and engagement. But before marketers…
Visiting Grandma At Her Assisted Living Community
July 22, 2016 | Blog Post
By Tiffany Seemeyer, Day Shift Manager, Valley VNA Senior Services What do an old-fashioned toy, recipe cards, a tea set, a cheerful child, and a well-behaved pup have in common?…
Joe McGrane
July 6, 2016 | Valley VNA Voice
By Gina Larsen, guest Joe McGrane is tall and lanky, a man of warm and quiet demeanor. He is also a faith-filled Catholic from a family of 11 children who…
Thoughts On Valuing, Visiting, And Engaging Friends With Dementia
June 28, 2016 | Blog Post
By Rev. John McFadden, M.Div., Valley VNA chaplain Last week I discussed the only form of friendship that is complete, put forth by Aristotle; that is, the friendship of virtue,…
Personhood and Spirituality Amidst Dementia
June 22, 2016 | Blog Post
By Rev. John McFadden, M. Div., Valley VNA chaplain Up to half of us are likely to experience varying degrees of forms of dementia, so it is unfortunate that the…