On any week night we may often be found joining several friends for pre-dinner drinks and conversation in the Pub at Meadowlark Hills. To us, the most satisfying feature of this evening routine is...
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November 14, 2024
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For the third article in our series highlighting November as National Caregiver Month, communication is the goal. We all use communication in some form or fashion numerous times a day. This communication might be made with our hands, face, spoken words or sounds, writing and typing, pictures, and/or emojis. We also need to be able to understand and interpret these expressions from others in order to have true communication. What happens, though, when part of this system is challenged by speech, language, hearing, or cognitive difficulties?
There are many challenges to caregiving. One of those challenges can be educating yourself and organizing the many legal documents needed when caring for a loved one with physical and/or mental disabilities. This part of our caregiver series is going to focus on these different types of legal documents.
As human beings, caring for one another is an innate part of who we are. As former First Lady Rosalynn Carter stated, caregiving will impact all of us, most likely in more ways than one. During National Caregivers Month, the Meadowlark Special Programs team is writing a series of articles to celebrate the caring that is happening in our community. Throughout the month of November, we will explore topics important to, and impacting, care partners and their loved ones. We will share resources and the wisdom of the caregivers in our midst.
In the early 2000s, Meadowlark was in phase two of a three-phase growth and evolution as a community. As a part of this expansion, Meadowlark planned to add a neighborhood of cottages known as Meadowlark Circle. However, there was a hurdle: a small family cemetery dating from the mid-1800s to 1900. The original cemetery had a least four formal headstones, all of which had been removed by early in the twentieth century.
Meadowlark hosted a housewarming event Wednesday, Sept. 27, for its new 24-unit independent living apartment building located on the main campus. The new building is called The Monarch and is located on the southeast corner of Meadowlark Road and Meadowlark Circle.
Oink! Now that the calendar has flipped to October, temperatures are cooling, but activities to benefit Meadowlark Foundation are heating up. It’s HOGTOBERFEST season, and here are a few squeal-worthy announcements!
No. 1 – The 10th annual HOGTOBERFEST, an awareness and fundraising event to benefit Meadowlark Foundation’s Good Samaritan Fund, is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 27!
No. 2 – Meadowlark’s Prairie Star Restaurant and Event Venue is this year’s celebration location!
No. 3 – 10 days of food specials are planned to mark the event’s 10-year anniversary!
During the summer of 1964, I joined the US Army as a Women’s Army Corps, enlisting as a nurse to help pay for my last year at University of North Carolina School of Nursing.
Sitting at my desk on my new and neat glassed-in porch, I’ve watched numerous bird species—robins, cardinals, wrens, bluebirds, orioles, brown thrashers, house finches, chickadees, doves, American goldfinches, blue jays, hummers, northern flickers, and crows flying, and turkey vultures soaring overhead, all going about their business of surviving this day.
Despite a light (and welcome!) rain shower during the recent Speedy Pd Race for Parkinson's Disease, nothing could wash away event organizers' excitement about the record number of registered participants for the 15th annual event, which occurred Saturday, Aug. 26, at Tuttle Creek State Park. Race directors Kimmie Koharchik, Doug Sellers, and Michelle Geering, along with event coordinator Michelle Haub knew that surpassing last year's number of runners and walkers was a real possibility in 2023.
A recent article in Nature’s Voice, the newsletter of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), reminded me of the scientist and author, Rachel Carson, and her courageous landmark 1962 book entitled Silent Spring.