Aberdeen Heights-The Glen Community Matters January 2017

Community Matters The Glen at Aberdeen Heights

January 2017

Aberdeen Heights placed on best nursing home list Aberdeen Heights is on the U.S. News and World Report Best Nursing Homes 2016-17 list.The senior living community received the highest score of a five-star rating system to make the list, available today at www.usnews.com/ nursinghomes.

The U.S. News and World Report list uses information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the government agency that sets and enforces standards for nursing homes. CMS assigns one to five stars to each community for how well it performs in health inspections, nurse staffing and level of quality care.

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Dottie Gray on one of her daily runs

Nonstop nonagenarian an inspiration January is a month of new beginnings. Many of us take stock of the year before and consider ways we’d like to improve the year ahead. For some, that means making healthier choices, like eating more vegetables or getting more exercise. Both of these things can seem daunting, and moving your body on a regular basis may seem impossible during life’s later years. But if you ever think it’s too late to take up a fitness regimen, Dottie Gray may give you reason to think again.

This Aberdeen Heights resident is in her ninth decade, and yet she still manages to run a 5K every weekend. That’s right, every weekend. She didn’t take up running until she was in her 50s, and she doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Last month, family, friends and Aberdeen Heights staff members gathered to cheer Dottie on as she completed the Jingle Bell 5K, complete with matching shirts which read, “Ho Ho Ho, Go Dottie Go!” She was even interviewed by several local news NONAGENARIAN, continued on page 2

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publications. We’re incredibly proud of Dottie’s determination and accomplishments, and we encourage you to commit to daily movement, however possible for your body and unique health situation.

Community Matters is published monthly for residents and friends of Aberdeen Heights by Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at: PresbyterianManors.org.

James “Jamie” Kneen, executive director To submit or suggest articles for this publication, contact Loretta Cutler, health care lifestyle coordinator, lcutler@pmma.org.

Telephone: 314-909-6010 Address: 505 Couch Ave., Kirkwood, MO 63122 Our mission: We provide quality senior services guided by Christian values.

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in the Presbyterian Manors of MidAmerica system. “Our employees continue to focus their efforts on delivering quality care every day,” said PMMA President and CEO Bruce Shogren. “The five-star rating confirms their good work.”

This is the fourth consecutive year Aberdeen Heights has appeared on the US News and World Report Best Nursing Homes list.

Survey teams from the state conduct

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inspections in each community every 12 to 15 months.The surveys cover a checklist of about 180 items such as medication management, food preparation and delivery, proper paperwork, and resident enrichment activities.

In addition to Aberdeen Heights, Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America had five locations on the honoree list for 2016-17 including Clay Center, Emporia, Lawrence, Sterling and Wichita in Kansas.

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Aberdeen Heights honored for many achievements Aberdeen Heights received a certificate of recognition from Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America for reaching goals in fiscal year 2016, July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016.

The recognition came through PMMA’s Emerald Awards Program, designed to encourage its 17 campuses to achieve high levels of resident and employee satisfaction, meet financial goals, build philanthropic support for the organization’s mission and meet marketing goals.There are 11 areas measured Bill Taylor, chief operating officer, left, and Bruce Shogren, president and chief executive officer, right, for the Emerald Awards. present James Kneen, executive director, with an Emerald Award certificate for being a 5-star rated community by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, plus three more goals.

To receive an emerald, a community has to meet its goals in all 11 areas. Certificates of recognition were given out to communities that reached their goals in one or more category.

Services, achieving a high rating for employee satisfaction on annual survey, and meeting marketing and occupancy goals.

Aberdeen Heights was recognized for achieving a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

“This recognition is a visible sign of Aberdeen Heights’ commitment to the mission of PMMA of providing quality

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senior services guided by Christian values,” said Bruce Shogren, chief executive officer for PMMA. Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America has been providing quality senior services guided by Christian values in Kansas and Missouri for more than 65 years.

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3 New Year’s resolutions for older adults In 2007, British psychologist Richard Wiseman followed more than 3,000 people attempting to achieve New Year’s resolutions including the top three: lose weight, quit smoking and exercise regularly. At the start of the study, most were confident of success.

A year later, only 12 percent had achieved their goals.

To make meaningful NewYear’s resolutions that you’ll really keep, set long-range resolutions for your second act. This way, you can help reach the goals that matter to you in the context of your entire future, not just a single year.

To make holistic NewYear’s resolutions, look to the wisdom of Peter Drucker, the father of modern management who died in 2005 at 95. Drucker’s iconic 39 books and countless articles were always forward-focused. Here are five longrange resolutions for older adults.

To embrace uncertainty and support your second act, form a book club or discussion group dedicated to learning about the future. Explore advances and trends in business, technology, education, culture and work.You could also look at role models — people you know or ones in the public eye who seem adept at navigating uncertainty.

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2. I resolve to seek opportunities in changing conditions.

We may not like change, but it’s natural, necessary, and something to celebrate. Drucker distinguished between being a change agent (good) and a change leader (better). “The most effective way to manage change successfully is to create it,” he said. To do that, you need to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.

So, rather than just reacting to change, go out and look for it. Think about Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of 1. I resolve to embrace Amazon.com. He played a mammoth, uncertainty rather than avoid it. pioneering role in the growth of Don’t assume that tomorrow will be e-commerce.You don’t need to aspire to be another Bezos, but you should like today. It could be, but the future actively search for new possibilities is unknown. And while uncertainty inside and outside your field. can be unsettling, remember this: we’re all in the same boat.

One suggestion: Interact with people in diverse groups and start reading unfamiliar newspapers, magazines, blogs and websites.

needed to make going forward.

As you reflect on your second act, maximize your efforts by employing practices such as journaling and mindfulness.You can also adopt what’s 3. I resolve to stop and reflect known as a “beginner’s mind.” In his on my second act. classic book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki (founder of the Every year, Drucker carved out San Francisco Zen Center) wrote: “In time to engage in deep, focused introspection. He’d reflect on how the the beginner’s mind there are many past year had gone compared with his possibilities, but in the expert’s there expectations and the adjustments he are few.”

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