Shell Point Assisted Living Newsletter May 2019

May 2019

Close to Home New Preventative Care Program Comes to Assisted Living

By McKenzie Millis, King’s Crown Assisted Living Director

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reventative care and a strong relationship with your healthcare provider is key to overall wellness. Shell Point assisted living residents benefit from preventative care visits with nurse practitioners on a quarterly basis in the comfort of their home.

Each assisted living residence is assigned to a different provider.

Rocio Campbell, APRN, visits The Springs; Lewis Caldrone, APRN, visits The Arbor; and Carol Clark, APRN, visits King’s Crown. “The APRN Assisted Living Rounds program launched in 2018 with goal of helping to build a stronger relationship between assisted living residents and the Healthy Living medical services offered at Shell Point,” said Shell Point Medical Director Dr. Gary Goforth.

These non-billable visits allow residents the opportunity to ask questions and discuss their health on a holistic basis. These rounds are completed in the resident’s home in collaboration with the nursing staff from the building to build strong coordination and relationships between the providers and the nurses that care for residents on a daily basis.

“This is a great program! I greatly appreciate these visits and find them to be very helpful in providing me with an additional opportunity to be able to collaborate with the Medical Center team regarding my overall health and wellness,” said King’s Crown resident Claudia Upper. “Having these visits occur in the comfort and privacy of my own apartment makes it easy especially when I am feeling ill.”

Shell Point providers strive to meet the needs of each resident on an individual basis, so that no two home visits are the same. Consider it just another example of how Shell Point healthcare continuum leads the way by offering innovative programs focused on prevention and the highest quality of life for all.

Published monthly for assisted living residents at Shell Point.

THE ARBOR

8100 Arbor Court (239) 454-2292

KING’S CROWN

3699 King’s Crown Court (239) 454-2175

THE SPRINGS

13901 Shell Point Plaza (239) 600-6400

Shell Point is a nonprofit ministry of The Christian and Missionary Alliance Foundation, Inc.

International Pancake Day MEETS ITS MATCH

By Shauni Helmlinger, Arbor Activities Leader

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nternational Pancake Day always takes place 47 days before Easter each year. The exact date of this fun food holiday changes annually, because it’s calculated by counting back from Easter (which changes each calendar year). This year, International Pancake Day fell on Tuesday, March 5, which also happened to be Mardi Gras!

So what do Shell Point assisted living residents do when International Pancake Day and Mardi Gras fall on the exact same day? Eat green and purple pancakes at a festive Mardi Gras celebration, of course!

Residents and staff gathered to enjoy green and purple pancakes, as well as a colorful candy bar, in celebration of Fat Tuesday. After eating a syrup-soaked breakfast, residents and staff gathered at a Mardi Gras-themed photo station to take pictures with festive props. Plenty of laughter filled the room as everyone laughed and posed for pictures together!

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ll three assisted living buildings joined together for a fun-filled kick-off event to celebrate the opening day of the Major League Baseball (MLB) season.

Residents headed to The Springs to meet Sway, the Miracle mascot from the local Fort Myers Miracle baseball team. But Sway wasn’t the only cute, furry creature representing baseball at the party! Nala also showed up in style. The pet therapy dog, who visits assisted living residents each month, sported a full baseball uniform. She playfully spent time with event attendees, many of whom also arrived wearing their favorite baseball team gear.

The dunk tank was another popular attraction during the event, staffed by HCA and all-around good sport Donna LASTNAME (BUILDING). There was no shortage of residents lined up to throw pitches at the dunk tank!

Meanwhile, the smell of good, old-fashioned grilled food wafted through the Springs Courtyard as the assisted living dining team prepared hamburgers and hot dogs for guests as well as tasty baseball snacks: popcorn, peanuts, Crackerjacks and cotton candy. Live music provided the perfect soundtrack to complement the event, along with beautiful outdoor weather.

You might say the event was a home run.

MAY

Birthdays THE ARBOR Elizabeth Gill.......................5 Pat Powning.........................8 Jay Barclay............................8 Anthony DiBiase...............12 Frances Frey.......................12 Mim Sargent......................21 Ted Robbins.......................22 KING’S CROWN Ruth Taylor..........................5 Nancy Lipocky.....................6 Dr. James Graham................9 Sarah “Sallie” Soule...........13 Nancy Beecher...................24 THE SPRINGS Rose Matuszewski.................24

IN LOVING

Memory

OF OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS Joanne Mishler (The Springs).... March 21 Nell Ernst (The Springs)............ March 31 Ken Rohde (The Springs).............. April 1 Jean Field (King’s Crown)............. April 9 Wayne Kissel (The Arbor).......... April 13 Helen Johnson (King’s Crown)..... April 15 Ruth Tatsch (King’s Crown)........ April 20

New Life

By Bonnie Palmquist, Assistant Chaplain

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o you remember springtime up north?

Remember planting bulbs and seeds under the ground, covering them carefully with dirt, waiting eagerly for those first green shoots to show?

Before you knew it, there were beautiful, colorful flowers, where only a short while ago there had been nothing but dirt!

The purpose of burying seeds and bulbs is not to kill them, but to give them new life. They will grow into the same beautiful plants, but new and fresh.

Jesus had an interesting comment on what would happen to those seeds that weren’t buried. In John 12:2425, He says, “Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is, destroys that life. But if you

let it go, reckless in your love, you’ll have it forever, real and eternal.” (The Message) Jesus was saying that if we insist on holding onto our own self-centered thoughts, plans and actions, we will gradually wither away in our spirits.

What are some of the temptations of selfcenteredness in our older years? Perhaps self-pity, looking back on the “good old days,” a sense of entitlement, or even resentment or dissatisfaction that we are still here!

In contrast, God’s plan for us is to continually grow us to be what He created us to be; each one different, and beautiful in our own way. To let that happen, we need to “bury” our self-centeredness and trust God, even in our older years.

You’ve heard the old saying, “Bloom where you’re planted.”

It’s amazing how alive we feel when we die to our selfcenteredness and come alive to God’s life and purpose for us!