| Courier News Online - BRIDGEWATER: Two seminars address heart health
As part of American Heart Month, Dr. Romeo Caballes will speak on the prevention of heart disease at Bridgeway Care Center 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 15, sponsored by Bridgeway Senior Healthcare. The discussion will include cholesterol, diet, exercise, heart healthy recipes, meal alternatives, and understanding heart disease.
On Feb. 21, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm, Community Visiting Nurse Association of Somerville will speak at The Avalon Assisted Living at Hillsborough on healthy eating alternatives to prevent heart disease.
Call to reserve a seat at these informational seminars. Bridgeway Care Center is at 270 Route 28 in Bridgewater, (908) 722-7022.
The Avalon Assisted Living at Hillsborough is at 393 Amwell Road, just east of Route 206; call (908) 874-7200.
Ecumen Joins Commercial Equity Partners to Propose Lifestyle ...
Ecumen, which is Minnesota's largest non-profit senior housing company is joining with Commercial Equity Partners to Propose a Lifestyle Community for Seniors Adjacent to Woodwinds Health Campus in Woodbury, Minnesota. Shoreview, MN (PRWeb) January 25, 2007 -- Ecumen, Minnesota's largest non-profit senior housing company, has joined with Commercial Equity Partners, developer of Woodbury's Tamarack Hills Business Lifestyle Campus™, to propose a new lifestyle community for seniors who want to live in Woodbury.
The proposed development, called Crestwood Creek, would focus on meeting people's desires for lifestyle housing that provides convenience, a strong sense of community, a variety of services, wellness opportunities that energize mind, body and spirit, and easy access to leading medical care.
Veterans lobby for nursing home
East Bay and Central Valley veterans had one last chance Friday to make in-person pleas to keep a Veterans Affairs nursing home in Livermore or to move it east. "A lot of us like it here," said Tracy resident George Briggs, 83, a veteran of three wars. "You modernize this place a little and this would be ideal. It's a different atmosphere here." Briggs was one of a couple hundred veterans and others to attend the meeting at Livermore's nursing home care unit, the last of four such sessions with the advisory panel dealing with the Tri-Valley campus. The meetings are designed to get public opinion on what to do with the 115-acre site just south of Livermore. Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson is set to decide in late spring or summer from among four options on the table for a VA nursing home in the area: -Make slight upgrades to the existing Livermore facility.
Alzheimer's support group meets in Brick
BRICK: The Ocean County Board of Social Services holds a monthly Alzheimer's support group for local families the third Friday of each month at Brandywine Assisted Living at Reflections. The assisted living community, which is dedicated to people experiencing memory loss, is located at 1594 Route 88 in Brick. For more information, call (732) 349-1500. Tristan J. Schweiger .
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