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For Life Plan Community residents, personality traits like extroversion are associated with engagement in healthy behaviors such as exercise, researchers at the Mather Institute found.…Read More
The wellness trend has taken the senior living industry by storm — but simply encouraging more healthy habits or offering one-size-fits-all wellness programs may not work. Residents…Read More
Linda Womack worries about plastic trash. She’s heard about the island of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean that’s bigger than the state of…Read More
The recent results of the first of a five-year study being conducted by Chicago-based Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging and Northwestern University, found that nearly…Read More
Residents of life plan communities across the United States are generally experiencing higher levels of wellbeing than older adults living in the general population. That’s…Read More
If you’ve noticed more monarch butterflies fluttering around Evanston this summer, it’s thanks to the efforts of nature-loving locals like Joan and Tom Soper. The…Read More
As director of child care at senior living provider Ebenezer, Jody Schumann is passionate about bringing together children and older adults. “It gives the seniors…Read More
Whether it was reducing hospital readmissions or better tracking of incontinence, striking use of technology to improve resident care characterized the 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards…Read More
Holistic wellness programs are growing in popularity as a way to improve the quality of life of retirement community residents. The Mather, a retirement community…Read More
The Olympics may be over but friendly competition continued on Friday, September 2nd when The Mather, a Life Plan Community in Evanston, hosted 26 athletes…Read More
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