Special Supplement to The West Valley View
HEALTH
WELLNESS Your Local Guide to Better Living
Summer 2021
INSIDE
This Issue
AVANTI SENIOR LIVING PEORIA ..... 4 Avanti Senior Living’s amenities are unmatched
ASSOCIATED RETINA CONSULTANTS ...... 5 For more than 30 years, patients have always come first
GLENCROFT SENIOR LIVING ................. 6 Glencroft adds another tool in the ZoeLife arsenal
Glencroft erases stigma of modern living centers
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BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI
hen Glencroft Center for Modern Living underwent physical and theoretical facelifts three years ago, CEO John Wenzlau didn’t realize the impact it would have on the senior housing market. “We did a reinvention,” said Wenzlau, who has worked there for eight years. “We needed to change of perspective of people who needed the services we provide.” Even in the late 2010s, the stigma of places like Glencroft Center for Modern Living was negative. Wenzlau and his staff turned it around. The “modest buy-in community that was struggling” turned into a continuum of care retirement community (CCRC) with amenities needed for an aging community. The well-rounded Glencroft Center for Modern Living was founded in the early 1960s by Sarah Ruth, a local pastor’s wife. The Glendale facility offers independent and assisted living, memory and long-term care, along with home health services. Residents remain in the same 40-acre community as their health care needs evolve. Glencroft Center for Modern Aging is Arizona’s CCRC. “They’re reluctant to move into a senior place for a variety of reasons,” he said. “They think it’s a last stop in their journey. That is not what we are about. I put together a program with a fellow I hired out of the hospitality industry. We wanted to create a place to come where people can
John Wenzlau, the CEO of Glencroft Center for Modern Living, has 40 years’ experience in the U.S. senior living and housing industry, knowledge he used to change the people’s perspectives about senior care homes. (Photo by Pablo Robles)
thrive in the end years of their lives.” Glencroft provides standard services like meals, housekeeping and transportation; activities are what makes the center. “Everyone has a modified workout area,” he said. “But we needed to take it a step further and take a holistic approach.”
In 2019, Wenzlau and Vice President of Operations Steve Heller created the faithbased ZoeLife, which helps Glencroft residents maintain a healthy, active lifestyle and achieve and preserve a higher quality
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