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February 5, 2016
A Day in the Life of a Visiting Nurse Circa 1970
By Jamie Stier, Clinical Director, Manuel R. Grell Home Care & Dr. Matthew S. Shwartz Hospice In the middle of a snowstorm, I arrived at the visiting nurse office to…
November 25, 2015
A Far Cry From The Old Folks Home
A Poem by Jack Zimmerman, Activities Assistant at the Chelsea Jewish Lifecare I remember when all alone Old people lived in an Old Folks Home No activities for one to…
November 20, 2015
90 Year Old Resident’s Cookbook A Huge Success
On Thursday, November 19th, 90 year old Jeffrey & Susan Brudnick Center for Living resident, Mary Cena, celebrated a huge success with her new cookbook at a cookbook signing event at…
September 8, 2015
Age is Only a Number
By Donna Crescenzo, Controller, Chelsea Jewish Lifecare, North Shore Campus Most of us have heard the adages “fifty is the new forty” and “sixty is the new fifty” implying that…
August 31, 2015
Communicating with Individuals with Aphasia
By Jill Tura, Director of Rehabilitation, Leonard Florence Center for Living What is Aphasia? Aphasia is a language disorder resulting from an injury to the brain which affects a person’s…
August 3, 2015
Five Computer Safety Tips Everyone Should Know
By Christine Aery, Technology Support Specialist Computers and the Internet are a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, catch up on the latest news, shop, or simply…
July 20, 2015
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home First Wedding
The Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home’s first wedding in its 96 year history took place on Friday, July 10, 2015. Rose Stetson, a 91 year old resident, truly wanted to see…
June 17, 2015
Embracing and Protecting our Beautiful Flag
On Sunday, June 14th, we celebrated National Flag Day, which also marked a very special occasion for one Shapiro-Rudolph Adult Day Health Center (ADHC) employee, Ihsan Mohamed. Ihsan, a Certified…
June 16, 2015
Congratulations Chelsea Jewish Academy Graduates!
On Tuesday, June 9th, a brand new class graduated from the Chelsea Jewish Academy. Eight Chelsea Jewish Lifecare employees, all on staff at the Peabody Campus, graduated from the Academy….
April 27, 2015
CJF Featured in The Atlantic!
Building Better Nursing Homes by Alana Semuels — The woman Barry Berman saw sitting in the dining room of the nursing home was not his mother. Or, at least, she…
June 2, 2014
Survival through art
Rhina Espaillat met many survivors of the Holocaust when she was growing up in New York and was often impressed by their strength of mind. “I was always surprised to…